Pied Beauty
Pied Beauty is a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, written in 1877 and published posthumously in 1918. It is notable for its unique form, known as the curtal sonnet, which consists of 10.5 lines instead of the traditional 14. The poem celebrates the beauty of nature and the diversity of God's creation, emphasizing the theme of finding beauty in the ordinary and the transient.
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