Analysis of Easter Communion
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
Pure fasted faces draw unto this feast:
God comes all sweetness to your Lenten lips.
You striped in secret with breath-taking whips,
Those crooked rough-scored chequers may be pieced
To crosses meant for Jesu's; you whom the East
With draught of thin and pursuant cold so nips
Breathe Easter now; you serged fellowships,
You vigil-keepers with low flames decreased,
God shall o'er-brim the measures you have spent
With oil of gladness, for sackcloth and frieze
And the ever-fretting shirt of punishment
Give myrrhy-threaded golden folds of ease.
Your scarce-sheathed bones are weary of being bent:
Lo, God shall strengthen all the feeble knees.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDXDCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011011 111101111 1101011101 110111111 1101111101 11110010111 11011110 1101011101 11101010111 11111101 00101011100 111010111 11111101101 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 645 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 261 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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