This is an analysis of I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day,
What hours, O what black hours we have spent…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba aacaac
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 1111010111 11011110111 0111111111 1110110101 0101101111 10110111101 0110111101 0101110101 111111111101 1011111111 1101111101 100100111011 0111011100 1111110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
what, i, me
