This is an analysis of The Half-Way House by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Love I was shewn upon the mountain-side
And bid to catch Him ere the dropp of day.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcc babadd ececaa
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
- Metre: 1111010101 1101110101 1111111111 1001011101 10110111101 1110101101 11001010111 1101011111 11110011111 1111011101 1111011111 1111111111 111101111010 0111111011 1110011111010 01110111101 1111101111 10010010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
and, love, or, thee, i
Anaphora
love
