Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Pivot Requirement

An abbreviated sonnet in eleven lines that are arranged in two stanzas. The first has rhyme scheme abcabc, and the second is either dbcdc or dcbdc. The very last line is indented and shorter. It is, depending on what expert describes the curtal sonnet, either described as a half-line or a single spondee. Hopkins described it as the former, but usually executed it as the latter. It should have a pivot between the sestet and quintet.

This form was invented in 1877 by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

English

Rhyme: abcabc dbcdc, or abcabc dcbdc
Pivot: After line 6

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Sonnet

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