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Curtal Sonnet: a poetic form invented by Gerard Manley Hopkins, consisting of 10 lines and a half-line tail, which is a shortened version of a traditional 14-line sonnet. It maintains the proportions of a Petrarchan sonnet, but with a reduced number of lines. The structure is an octave (first part) of six lines and a sestet (second part) of four and a half lines, with a distinctive rhyme scheme, typically
abcabc dcbdc or abcabc dbcdc.
