This is an analysis of The Starlight Night by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba aaXcca
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 1101111101 1111010110001 01110101001 101101010101 0111111101 1110010011101 11110110111 110010101001 1111111011 1101111101 111111001010 1101011001 0101110101 111101011010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
look, at
Anaphora
look
