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; For rose moles all in stipple upon trout that swim Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls, finches" wings; Landscape plotted and pieced - fold, fallow and plough;" The combined effect of alliteration and hyphenation of words in the phrase "Fresh-firecoal chestnut falls" makes the general idea of burnished, glossy chestnuts, falling in a sunny blaze of colours into a sin...

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