This is an analysis of Thee, God, I Come From by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Thee, God, I come from, to thee go,
All day long I like fountain flow…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaba ccXc dddd ddXd eXbe bbXbX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,5,
  • Metre: 11110011 11111101 0111101 1101101 1110111 1010011 11101110 1001100 1110111 1111101 1011111 1010110 1111111 1001101 111111 0111111 1110111 1110010 1010111 1111110 1111111 1110011 0111010010 1111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

i, thou, my