'Henry Purcell' by Gerard Manley Hopkins is a sonnet. This is so, as it begins with two quatrains, which describe the musician from whom the poem takes its name, followed by a sestet that takes a closer look at the music that he (Henry Purcell) created. However, a sonnet is usually defined as fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter, and the poem 'Henry Purcell' has six iambic feet per line, and as a result it …
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…opkins' use of vocabulary and syntax. At the same time, however, a great deal of meaning would also be lost from the piece, as the effect pf the poetic devices that Hopkins has employed in the poem (such as rhythm, rich imagery, alliteration, the use of similes, parallelism and repetition and so forth) discussed above will be lost. (1271 words) Works Cited Gardner, WH (ed.), Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose. London, England: Penguin Books, 1985.