Pied Beauty

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Glory be to God for dappled things
For skies of couple-color as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches'wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced fol, fallow, and plough;
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickly, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He father-forth whose beauty is past chage:
Praise him.

Analysis: TPCASTT

T: Pied Beauty

P: The author of the poem appreciateds for the colorful elements he sees, by giving some examples of natures, such as roses that changes its own color of elements, different colors of landscape, chestnut, showing its own special color, and skies, using comparison with brinded cows. Also he gave some examples of animals, like finches on the air and trouts in the water.

C: Alliteration- giving explanations of nature at the second, fourth, seventh, eighth, and ninth stanza. Also, from second to fourth stanza, the first word starts with 'F'.
Assonace- emits the change of the rose's color and the landscape, at thrid and fifth stanza.


A: The tone of the author is colorful, thankful, and well articulated
The tone of the poem is colorful because the poet describes every elements with colorful words and stentence
Appreciates God because he is able to see everything with colors and its own beauty. \
The content wise of the poem is articulating.

S: The first six stanzas explains its special colors and its own characteristics, using comparisons. The shift happens after sixth stanza, by explaining about how God put colors in every nature and living things.

T: Colors we see.

T: Every colors and its special elements are created from God only.