This is an analysis of The Times Are Nightfall by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less;
The times are winter, watch, a world undone:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbX bbX
- Stanza lengths: 8,3,
- Metre: 0111111111 0111010101 1111011111 1111110101 1111111001 1001110101 1101111110 1101111000 1101101101 1101011101 1001011100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 11
Repeated words/phrases
they
Anaphora
the
