Analysis of Strike, Churl
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail
May’s beauty massacre and wispèd wild clouds grow
Out on the giant air; tell Summer No,
Bid joy back, have at the harvest, keep Hope pale.
| Scheme | ABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Enclosed rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111111 110100011111 1101011101 11111010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 207 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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