1. Gerard Manley Hopkins
... the design that gives a thing its distinctive characteristics and relates it to its context, very much as a melody links to a song. Hopkins wrote most frequently in the sonnet form. While he enjoyed the structure the sonnet form imposes, with its fixed length and rhyme scheme, ... allows for greater freedom in the position and proportion of stresses. Whereas English verse has traditionally alternated stressed and unstressed syllables with occasional variation, Hopkins was free to place multiple stressed syllables one after another as in the line " All felled, felled, are all felled- from ...
- Word Count: 1414
- Approx Pages: 6
- Grade Level: Undergraduate