In the Author's Preface to Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, he describes this poem as Curtal-Sonnet "that is they are constructed in proportions resembling those of the sonnet proper, namely 6 + 4 instead of 8 + 6, with however a halfline tailpiece (so that the equation is rather 12/8 + 9/2 = 21/2 + 10 1/2)." - Summary by Wikipedia
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Pied Beauty - Read by ALP
01:08 - Chapter 2
Pied Beauty - Read by BK
01:25 - Chapter 3
Pied Beauty - Read by DL
01:06 - Chapter 4
Pied Beauty - Read by EL
01:24 - Chapter 5
Pied Beauty - Read by GRS
01:12 - Chapter 6
Pied Beauty - Read by IK
01:06 - Chapter 7
Pied Beauty - Read by LAH
01:09 - Chapter 8
Pied Beauty - Read by LCW
01:00 - Chapter 9
Pied Beauty - Read by MK
01:11 - Chapter 10
Pied Beauty - Read by ND
01:07 - Chapter 11
Pied Beauty - Read by PJW
01:14 - Chapter 12
Pied Beauty - Read by PS
01:06 - Chapter 13
Pied Beauty - Read by RAJ
01:08 - Chapter 14
Pied Beauty - Read by RAR
01:12 - Chapter 15
Pied Beauty - Read by TA
01:15 - Chapter 16
Pied Beauty - Read by TP
01:06