Analysis of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
Laybrother of the Society of Jesus
Honour is flashed off exploit, so we say;
And those strokes once that gashed flesh or galled shield
Should tongue that time now, trumpet now that field,
And, on the fighter, forge his glorious day.
On Christ they do and on the martyr may;
But be the war within, the brand we wield
Unseen, the heroic breast not outward-steeled,
Earth hears no hurtle then from fiercest fray.
Yet God (that hews mountain and continent,
Earth, all, out; who, with trickling increment,
Veins violets and tall trees makes more and more)
Could crowd career with conquest while there went
Those years and years by of world without event
That in Majorca Alfonso watched the door.
Scheme | X ABBAABBA CCDEED |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1100100110 11111111 0111111111 1111110111 01010111001 1111010101 1101010111 01001011101 1111011101 1111100100 1111110100 11000111101 1101110111 11011110101 1001010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 694 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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