This is an analysis of the poem Pied Beauty that begins with:
Glory be to God for dappled things --
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabcdbXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100011101 110101010101 11110101111 1100111101 111011111 11111101 1110010011 11001010111 01111101 1101110011 11
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 560
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
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- summary of Pied Beauty;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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