Analysis of Pied Beauty

Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)



Glory be to God for dappled things --
   For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
     For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
 Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
   Landscape plotted |&| pieced -- fold, fallow, |&| plough;
     And {'a}ll trades, their gear |&| tackle |&| trim.
       All things counter, original, sp{'a}re, strange;
   Whatever is fickle, freckl{`e}d, (who knows how?)
     With sw{'i}ft, sl{'o}w; sweet, s{'o}ur; ad{'a}zzle, d{'i}m;
       He fathers-forth whose beauty is p{'a}st change:
     Pr{'a}ise h{'i}m.


Scheme ABCABCDBEDE
Poetic Form
Metre 10111111 1111011011 11110101111 1111101 1101111 011111101 111001001111 10110111111 1111111001111111111 110111011111 111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 558
Words 79
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 361
Words per stanza (avg) 76
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 23, 2023

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