Pied Beauty

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This poem seems to have no setting. However, it uses a lot of images that made me think of being outdoors, camping, on a picnic, or looking up at the sky. The poem also has a joyful tone. It also has a little religious insight. It is almost like a prayer, in that the poem gives praise to God, and celebrates his creations.
There is much alliteration in this poem. In the second line, the "C" sound is repeated where the speaker says "of couple-color as a brinded cow." In the fourth line, the "F" sound is repeated. This line reads, "Fresh fire-coal chestnut falls; finches wings." I think this use of alliteration helps to emphasize the freshness of nature. The "F" combined with the "sh" sounds made me think of fresh things, like fruits, and even the word "fresh" itself. There is more alliteration in the fifth and sixth lines where the poem reads:
"Landscape plotted and pieced - fold, fallow ...

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