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 |
Font size:
Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
- 26 sec read
- 229 Views
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem analysis to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Pied Beauty" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 1 May 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem-analysis/15877/pied-beauty>.
Discuss this Gerard Manley Hopkins poem analysis with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In