Analysis of To Seem The Stranger Lies My Lot, My Life
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life
Among strangers. Father and mother dear,
Brothers and sisters are in Christ not near
And he my peace my parting, sword and strife.
England, whose honour O all my heart woos, wife
To my creating thought, would neither hear
Me, were I pleading, plead nor do I: I wear-
y of idle a being but by where wars are rife.
I am in Ireland now; now I am at a thírd
Remove. Not but in all removes I can
Kind love both give and get. Only what word
Wisest my heart breeds dark heaven's baffling ban
Bars or hell's spell thwarts. This to hoard unheard,
Heard unheeded, leaves me a lonely began.
| Scheme | ABBAAXXA CDCDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101011111 0110100101 1001010111 0111110101 1011111111 1101011101 10110111111 1110010111111 110100111110111 0111010111 1111011011 101111101001 1111111101 10101101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 622 |
| Words | 123 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 239 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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