Analysis of Thee, God, I Come from
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
Thee, God, I come from, to thee go,
All day long I like fountain flow
From thy hand out, swayed about
Mote-like in thy mighty glow.
What I know of thee I bless,
As acknowledging thy stress
On my being and as seeing
Something of thy holiness.
Once I turned from thee and hid,
Bound on what thou hadst forbid;
Sow the wind I would; I sinned:
I repent of what I did.
Bad I am, but yet thy child.
Father, be thou reconciled.
Spare thou me, since I see
With thy might that thou art mild.
I have life before me still
And thy purpose to fulfil;
Yea a debt to pay thee yet:
Help me, sir, and so I will.
But thou bidst, and just thou art,
Me shew mercy from my heart
Towards my brother, every other
Man my mate and counterpart.
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Scheme | AAXA BBXX CCXC DDXD EEXE FFXF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 11111101 1111101 1101101 1111111 1010011 11100110 1011100 1111101 1111101 1011111 1011111 1111111 101110 111111 1111111 1110111 011011 1011111 1110111 1110111 1110111 0111010010 111010 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 737 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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