Talking about Pied Beauty, I'd love to analyze it here -- it is unarguably one of the most successful poems in the language, yet it is full of delicious metrical anomalies.
As for the ending, I can see that Hopkins probably intended "Him" to take the stress, but I prefer to "misread" it.
[This message has been edited by Caleb Murdock (edited October 02, 2001).]
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