Analysis of In the Valley of the Elwy

Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)



I remember a house where all were good
To me, God knows, deserving no such thing:
Comforting smell breathed at very entering,
Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood.
That cordial air made those kind people a hood
All over, as a bevy of eggs the mothering wing
Will, or mild nights the new morsels of spring:
Why, it seemed of course; seemed of right it should.

Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,
All the air things wear that build this world of Wales;
Only the inmate does not correspond:
God, lover of souls, swaying considerate scales,
Complete thy creature dear O where it fails,
Being mighty a master, being a father and fond.


Scheme ABBAABBA CCDCCD
Poetic Form
Metre 1010011101 1111010111 10011110100 1111011111 11011111001 11010101101001 1111011011 1111111111 100110111 10111111111 10011101 110111001001 0111011111 10100101001001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 660
Words 119
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 257
Words per stanza (avg) 59
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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