This is an analysis of Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Glory be to God for dappled things --
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcabcdbXdX
  • Stanza lengths: 11,
  • Metre: 100011101 110101010101 11110101111 1100111101 111011111 11111101 1110010011 11001010111 01111101 1101110011 11
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 11

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Anaphora

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