... count both stresses and syllables, this form allows for greater freedom in the position and proportion of stresses. Whereas English verse has traditionally alternated stressed and unstressed syllables with occasional variation, Hopkins was free to place multiple stressed syllables one after another as in the line " All felled, felled, are all felled- from "Binsey Poplars", or to run a large number of ... is sealed! This close linking of words through sound and rhythm complements Hopkins's themes of finding pattern and design everywhere as is done in music, through transitioning riffs an...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... line of stanza four an iamb. He also chooses to combine two words and create a "falsified" iamb on two occasions. He does this by having the second word, of the combined two; take up an accent to thus create an iamb. An example of this type of structural detail is in the third line which reads, " And to these virtues of ... odd structural choice but creates an indecisive conclusion in the process. The last stanza is by itself when it comes to the repetition of word grouping. Blake chose yet another variation of repeating the same words as the other stanzas, " Mercy", "Pity" and, "Love"....

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• Grade Level: High School