Curtal sonnet¶
curtal_sonnet · form · validated
A sonnet contracted to eleven lines in the proportion six to four and a half, keeping the sonnet's proportions in miniature.
Provenance¶
- Source: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems (1918)
- Attribution:
primary— a named author, work and year this catalogue stands behind - Checkability:
self— decidable from the text and its parameters alone - Attested:
author-stated— the originator set this rule down
Details¶
- Kind: restrictive
- Languages: en
- Requires:
tokens,phonemes,stress,syllables.heuristic - Deterministic: yes
Notes¶
Hopkins wrote "Pied Beauty" in sprung rhythm, which this row does not read: it scans the eleven lines against iambic pentameter, so the poem that defines the form does not satisfy the row named after it. ADR 0040 D4 declines to widen the stress model on the measurement and records the cost here instead.
Prompt hint¶
Write eleven lines proportioned as a shrunken sonnet, six then four and a half.
Parameters¶
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
feminine_ending |
boolean | False |
Whether a line may close on one extra unstressed syllable (a feminine or klingende ending) as well as on the bare metre. |
unknown_rhyme |
string | undecidable |
What a line ending absent from the pronouncing dictionary means: leave the pair unscored (undecidable), let it satisfy the scheme (free), or fail it (strict). |
Examples¶
hopkins-proportion¶
en — this text satisfies the procedure.
the fish will swim beneath the frozen lake
the cat can see the moon above the tree
the dog will run across the field today
the deer will wake before the morning break
a kestrel flies around the house at three
the sun will set behind the hill in may
the moon will rise and fill the sky with light
the boat will drift below the open sea
the wind will move the grass and blow away
the stars will burn until the end of night
the birds will sing before the break of day
Source: constructed example; rhyme scheme and metre after Hopkins's curtal sonnets
ten-lines¶
en — this text does not satisfy the procedure.
the fish will swim beneath the frozen lake
the cat can see the moon above the tree
the dog will run across the field today
the deer will wake before the morning break
a bird can fly around the house at three
the sun will set behind the hill in may
the moon will rise and fill the sky with light
the boat will drift below the open sea
the wind will move the grass and blow away
the stars will burn until the end of night
Source: constructed counterexample
eleven-lines-one-mis-rhymed¶
en — this text does not satisfy the procedure.
the fish will swim beneath the frozen lake
the cat can see the moon above the tree
the dog will run across the field today
the deer will wake before the morning break
a bird can fly around the house at three
the sun will set behind the hill in may
the moon will rise and fill the sky with light
the boat will drift below the open sea
the wind will move the grass and blow away
the stars will burn until the end of noon
the birds will sing before the break of day
Source: constructed counterexample; eleven lines, one broken rhyme and nothing else
eleven-lines-one-unmetrical¶
en — this text does not satisfy the procedure.
the fish will swim beneath the frozen lake
the cat can see the moon over the tree
the dog will run across the field today
the deer will wake before the morning break
a bird can fly around the house at three
the sun will set behind the hill in may
the moon will rise and fill the sky with light
the boat will drift below the open sea
the wind will move the grass and blow away
the stars will burn until the end of night
the birds will sing before the break of day
Source: constructed counterexample; eleven lines, one trochee against the beat
hopkins-proportion¶
de — this text satisfies the procedure.
der Wandrer zieht durch jenes weite Land
der Wind bewegt die Blätter in der Nacht
ein Vogel singt am Morgen auf dem Baum
das Feuer brennt und wärmt die kalte Hand
der Regen fällt und niemand hat gelacht
ein Kind erwacht und ruft nach seinem Traum
die Lampe steht und gibt uns wenig Licht
die Glocke schlägt und alles ist vollbracht
der Nebel füllt den stillen kalten Raum
der Bote kommt, doch bringt er Botschaft nicht
der Fluss bewegt sich unter weißem Schaum
Source: constructed example; the rhyme scheme and measure of Hopkins's curtal sonnets
hopkins-pied-beauty-curtal¶
en — this text does not satisfy the procedure.
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.
Source: Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Pied Beauty" (written 1877; first published in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, ed. Robert Bridges, 1918), his own coinage of the form. Rejected: the poem is in sprung rhythm, which curtal_sonnet's catalogue note (ADR 0040 D4) says it does not read — the syllabic model expects a steady count and iambic stress per line, and sprung rhythm packs variable numbers of unstressed syllables around a fixed stress count instead. That mismatch produces 7 wrong_line_length violations (lines running 9 to 12 syllables, and the closing half-line "Praise him." at 2) and 4 wrong_stress violations on "chestnut", "tackle", "counter/original", and "sour". Measured on this HEAD: score 0.8878, 11 violations.