Analysis of God's Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man's smudge |&| shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs --
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast |&| with ah! bright wings.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDCDCD |
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Poetic Form | Petrarchan sonnet |
Metre | 0111100111 1111110111 110101010111 1111111111 010111111 0111111111 011111101 1111111101 0111101101 1101010111 0101110111 1101011101 0101011001 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 706 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 263 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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