This is an analysis of Love Preparing To Fly by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

He play'd his wings as tho' for flight;
They webb'd the sky with glassy light.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXaa
  • Stanza lengths: 6,
  • Metre: 11011111 11010101 01010110 101011 01000111 11101100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 6