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The Curtal Sonnet

Sonnet Forms

A compressed sonnet form invented by Gerard Manley Hopkins, reducing the traditional fourteen lines to ten and a half by shrinking the octave to six lines and the sestet to four and a half, while keeping the sonnet's characteristic turn and adding a closing half-line as a kind of tail.

Facts
Place of Origin
England, 1877, invented by Gerard Manley Hopkins. 1
Structure
Ten and a half lines: a six-line stanza rhymed ABCABC followed by a four-and-a-half-line stanza rhymed DBCDC, proportioned at roughly the same 8:6 ratio as a full sonnet's octave to sestet. 1
Notable Example
Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Pied Beauty" and "Peace." 1
Connections

Form Of Genre

Lyric Poetry, Genres
Source The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

Influenced By

The Sonnet, Forms
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Originated In

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject originated.

Source The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poeticstier 1
Sources
1. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Princeton University Press

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