Analysis of My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity on
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
My own heart let me more have pity on; let
Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,
Charitable; not live this tormented mind
With this tormented mind tormenting yet.
I cast for comfort I can no more get
By groping round my comfortless, than blind
Eyes in their dark can day or thirst can find
Thirst 's all-in-all in all a world of wet.
Soul, self; come, poor Jackself, I do advise
You, jaded, let be; call off thoughts awhile
Elsewhere; leave comfort root-room; let joy size
At God knows when to God knows what; whose smile
's not wrung, see you; unforeseen times rather - as skies
Betweenpie mountains - lights a lovely mile.
| Scheme | ABBAABBA CDCDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Petrarchan sonnet (93%) |
| Metre | 11111111011 1111110101 1000111101 11101101 1111011111 11011111 1011111111 11101010111 111111101 1101111101 111011111 1111111111 111110111011 11010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 633 |
| Words | 118 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 242 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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