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.
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Place of OriginEngland, 1877, invented by Gerard Manley Hopkins. 1 StructureTen 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 ExampleGerard Manley Hopkins's "Pied Beauty" and "Peace." 1 Connections
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Source The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
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1. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
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