Rhina, thank you for your response to my post (which I posted on the thread entitled "Introduction to Rhina Espaillat"). I just happened to be roaming the board shortly after you posted, and I didn't mean to correct you about the source of that phrase -- you would have figured it out soon enough, as you did. To be honest, I use any excuse I can to post Hopkins because of the unusual rhythms in his poems.
As for how to pronounce that line ("For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim"), I scanned it with 5 beats in my post, forgetting that it is accentual meter with 4 beats per line. However, pronouncing it with the emphasis on "moles" is something that never occurred to me -- I don't even know what "rose-mole" means, and can't find it in the dictionary.
[This message has been edited by Caleb Murdock (edited August 18, 2001).]
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