This is an analysis of To A Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabbcccddeeff
  • Stanza lengths: 15,
  • Metre: 1001110 10100100 1101011 01111111 1101110 00101110 1111101 11010101 11101111 1110101 1001101 11111101 111011 00011111 00100111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

you

Anaphora

it

Epiphora

you, for