Analysis of The Silver Jubilee
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
To James First Bishop of Shrewsbury on the 25th Year of his Episcopate July 28. 1876
Though no high-hung bells or din
Of braggart bugles cry it in—
What is sound? Nature’s round
Makes the Silver Jubilee.
Five and twenty years have run
Since sacred fountains to the sun
Sprang, that but now were shut,
Showering Silver Jubilee.
Feasts, when we shall fall asleep,
Shrewsbury may see others keep;
None but you this her true,
This her Silver Jubilee.
Not today we need lament
Your wealth of life is some way spent:
Toil has shed round your head
Silver but for Jubilee.
Then for her whose velvet vales
Should have pealed with welcome, Wales,
Let the chime of a rhyme
Utter Silver Jubilee.
Scheme | X AAXB CCXB DDXB EEXB FFXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110110101111111 1111111 1110110 111101 101010 1010111 11010101 111101 1001010 1111101 1011101 111101 101010 1011101 11111111 111111 101110 1101101 1111101 101101 101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 696 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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