This is an analysis of Moonrise by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of the morning:
The moon, dwindled and thinned to the fringe of a finger-nail held to the candle,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aaX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,3,
  • Metre: 1010011010110011010010 0110110010010110010 1100100001100101100 100111001001100010 01111011101010111100 01010010001100101100 101111010111111010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 7

Repeated words/phrases

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