Analysis of To a Young Child
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow's springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001110 1011 1101111 11111111 1101110 11111110 1011101 111111 01111011 1110101 11101 11111101 111111 11011111 11100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 497 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 389 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 94 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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