What Is a Brinded Cow?

The meaning of “skies of couple-colour” is the double-coloured sky; the sky when it looks double-coloured, while the meaning of “as a brinded cow” means a double-coloured cow. Here “Brinded” means “streaked”. The comparison of the sky with a streaked cow is rather odd.

What does dappled mean?

Here the meaning of “dappled things” refers to the multi-coloured and spotted things; mottled thing.

What are the dappled things in Pied Beauty?

In the poem, the narrator praises God for the variety of "dappled things" in nature, such as piebald cattle, trout and finches. He also describes how falling chestnuts resemble coals bursting in a fire, because of the way in which the chestnuts' reddish-brown meat is exposed when the shells break against the ground.