Sonnet shortened


Shortened Sonnet - a piece showing genre and versification features of the sonnet, but not reaching the predicted number of fourteen verse, basic for this genre. An example of a shortened sonnet is the well-known poem by Czesław Miłosz, which you harmed, numbering thirteen verses. The short sonnet is an eleven-word curtal sonnet invented and used by a nineteenth-century English religious poet, author of the poem Shipwreck of the Deutschland ship, Gerard Manley Hopkins: GLORY be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him. (Gerard Maley Hopkins, Pied Beauty)

The shortened Sonnet is also a nine-son sonnet used by the Latvian national poet Jānis Rainis.

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