... empathise. Yet for all his innovation and disregard of convention, Hopkins' goal it seems was always to bring poetry closer to the character of natural, living speech. Poems such as "Pied Beauty" by Hopkins seem to reject ponderous rhythm and instead deliberately create a light and skipping effect by joining words and phrases together unusually: "For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow ... lines together in a musical cycle. Unlike traditional Victorian poets, Hopkins uses this repetition of words to build images that are used to crystallise a thought or idea. For example, again in "...

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