This is an analysis of Andromeda by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Now Time’s Andromeda on this rock rude,
With not her either beauty’s equal or…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cccccc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1101001011 0101010101 01001111101 010010101101 11110010101 1101111111 0101011101 1001110111 0100101101001 1001110111 0110010111 11010100001 11001010111 01011100111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

her, s, more, and

Anaphora

her