What is also fascinating about this poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins is its meter and rhythm. The author follows the form of Italian sonnet, which has fourteen lines. Hopkins separates his poem into two stanzas; one eight lines and the other one – six. This division compares the stanzas and makes a clearer contrast between them. What concerns the rhythm of the poem, Hopkins wrote it in so-called “sprung rhythm”, which he became famous for. The relations of stressed and unstressed vowels are more complicated in sprung rhythm, than is regular speech. This gives the poem a unique flavor as, on the one hand, its meter is that of traditional Italian sonnet, but the rhythm is rather innovative. Thus, the author uses his creativity and combines tradition and innovation in his memorable poem.