CruTal Sonnet

 WHAT IS A CRUTAL SONNET ?? 

Invented in the 19th century ,  by Gerard  Manley Hopkins , the Crutal Sonnet is a ten and half – line poem final line consisting of a single spondee (or foot consisting of two long or stressed syllables).It consists of precisely ¾ of the structure of Petrarchan Sonnet shrunk proportionally rather than the first eleven lines of a standard sonnet . The first six lines of  Crutal Sonnet are translated from the first eight lines of Sonnet and the last four and half lines are translated from last six lines of Sonnet . 

FORMAT OF CRUTAL SONNET : 

The rhyming scheme of the Crutal Sonnet is given bellow : 

Line 1: a

Line 2: b

Line 3: c

Line 4: a

Line 5: b

Line 6: c

Line 7: d

Line 8: b

Line 9: c

Line 10: d

Line 11: c

 

As said earlier this is a 10 line sonnet instead of 14 , the last (11th) line is considered half . It consists of just two long stressed words or a spondee.

EXAMPLEOF CRUTAL SONNET : 

Pied Beauty

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 Manley Hopkins

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TIPS FOR WRITING CRUTAL SONNET : 

● First thing first , keep in mind the rhyming scheme . Its pretty easy ; 

    a. b. c. a. b. c. and a quintet rhyming, d. c. b. d. c.. or.. d. b. c. d. c. 

● Secondly , Crutal Sonnet is basically a Sonnet of 10 and half lines . So it is must for you to complete it in the given amount of lines ; don't think of it as a Sonnet , these two are very different . 

● One more thing to consider is that the last line (11th) consists of a spondee ; meaning two long              syllables . 

Readers, Its time to write !! So pick up your pens and amaze the world with your brand new Crutal Sonnet ..... 

Let’s do it !!

Writen by : Shreya ( member of TeamPoeTReeForest )