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Poem Analysis: by Gerald Maneley Hopkins This poem written by Hopkins, in 1880, is a religious sonnet addressed to the dead Felix Randall, the farrier. It is a sonnet, meaning that it contains 14 lines, divided up into two quatraines and a sestet, which in turn is divided up in two tercets. This way of writing in fact keeps Randall from expressing himself completely because he is following a fixed rhyme scheme, but none the less he has written a powerful poem with an extensive use of vocabularey. The story that is told in the sonnet is divided up into two different perspectives; the physical state, and the mental or spiritual state. The fist stanza is told in a physical point of view and is an introduction to Felix Randall who is horse farrier. This being mentioned imidiatly brings to mind that he must be a strong man, which in turn creates the physical perspective. After being introduced to Felix Randall, the reader is imidiatly thrown into the deep end by Hopkins and told that Randall is dead, that he had died from "four fatal disorders" and all Randall's harsh and hardy-handsomeness had been lost in his death by this sickness. The vocabulary which hopkins uses in this stanza, brings out the harshness and the bois