This is an analysis of My Own Heart Let Me Have More Have Pity On; Let by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

My own heart let me have more have pity on; let
Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 111111111011 1101110101 10001101101 0011011101 1111011111 1101110011 1011111111 11101010101 1111101101 1101011101 1111011111 1111011111 11111101110001 1010000101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

in, can, all