ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A metrical system devised by Gerard Manley Hopkins composed of one-to four-syllable feet that start with a stressed syllable. The spondee replaces the iamb as a dominant measure, and the number of unstressed syllables varies considerably from line to line (see also accentual verse).

Detailed explanation-2: -sprung rhythm, an irregular system of prosody developed by the 19th-century English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. It is based on the number of stressed syllables in a line and permits an indeterminate number of unstressed syllables. In sprung rhythm, a foot may be composed of from one to four syllables.

Detailed explanation-3: -Gerard Manley Hopkins is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the Victorian era. However, because his style was so radically different from that of his contemporaries, his best poems were not accepted for publication during his lifetime, and his achievement was not fully recognized until after World War I.

Detailed explanation-4: -Spring and Fall, in full Spring and Fall: To a Young Child, poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, written in 1880 and published posthumously in 1918 in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Detailed explanation-5: -Definition and Explanation of Sprung Rhythm Sprung rhythm refers to the arrangement of stresses rather than syllables in a line of verse. The first syllable is stressed and is followed by a number of unstressed other syllables. That number can vary but was usually between one and four in Hopkins’s work.