Analysis of Love Preparing to Fly
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
He play'd his wings as tho' for flight;
They webb'd the sky with glassy light.
His body sway'd upon tiptoes,
Like a wind-perplexed rose;
In eddies of the wind he went
At last up the blue element.
| Scheme | AABBCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111111 11011101 1101011 101011 01010111 11101100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 201 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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