Poem Analysis of What Being In Rank-Old Nature by Gerard Manley Hopkins for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem What Being In Rank-Old Nature that begins with:

What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been
That hére pérsonal tells off these heart-song powerful peals?— ... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aXXXaa X
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: blank verse
Metre: 1100111011001110 1110111111001 011101100 0011011000111 01001100100110101 101101000101 101010100101010
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 431
Average number of words per stanza: 75
Amount of lines: 8
Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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