This is an analysis of The Furl Of Fresh-Leaved Dogrose Down by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
The furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down
His cheeks the forth-and-flaunting sun…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa XbXb cbcb dedeXeX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,7,
- Metre: 010110101 01011101 110010101 0100111 011101011 010101 1111111111 1110101 1101011001 0111001 11110101 011101 11001101 1011101 1101111001 10101001 10111011011010 101001001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 19
