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 unstressed syllables together as in " Finger of a tender of, O of a feathery delicacy- from "The Wreck of the Deutschland". ... 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 and mel...

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When combined with the first line we start to see a game of "catch", by using the word choices; two, boys, tossing, poem, together. ... "High, make him fly off the ground for it, low, make him stoop, Make him scoop it up, make him as-almost-as-possible miss it,Fast, let him sting from it, now, now fool him slowly," Each line uses images of catching or tossing a ball to say there are variations. ...

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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. ... Blake chose yet another variation of repeating the same words as the other stanzas, " Mercy", "Pity" and, "Love". ...

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