This is an analysis of It Was A Hard Thing To Undo This Knot by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
It was a hard thing to undo this knot.
The rainbow shines, but only in the thought…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AabbccaaaA
- Stanza lengths: 10,
- Metre: 0101100101 0111110001 0111110101 111111010 1101010101 1111110101 1101110101 0111010101 1100011001 0101100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 10
