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.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 558 |
Words | 79 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
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