Analysis of Heaven-Haven
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail,
And a few lilies blow.
And I have asked to be
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea.
| Scheme | ABBA CDDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1101011 1111 1111110101 001101 011111 1111 1011100101 01101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 238 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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