The poem is one of many in which Hopkins experimented with variations on sonnet form.
At the same time, practitioners of the new sonnet form maintained that it had its similarities with the pantun.
"But my mother and father never yelled at me in sonnet form."
The European sonnet form was especially popular, but the influence of traditional verse forms remained strong.
The sonnet form was limited structurally, in theme and in expressions.
The sonnet form has a long history of being set to music, starting with composers in the Italian renaissance.
The sonnet's conventions have changed over its history, and so there are several different sonnet forms.
The sonnet form gave the Romantic poets the best of both worlds.
"I call the beach house the sonnet form of American architecture."
And in cooking, as in the sonnet form, the art lies in the constraints.