In addition, Brad Walker used the form for his 2019 novella, 'Adam and Rosamond', a parody of Victorian fiction. The British writer Andy Croft has written two novels in Onegin stanzas, 'Ghost Writer' and '1948'. The Onegin stanza is also used in the verse novel Equinox by Australian writer Matthew Rubinstein, serialized daily in the Sydney Morning Herald and currently awaiting publication in the biography in verse Richard Burgin by Diana Burgin in the verse novel Jack the Lady Killer by HRF Keating (title borrowed from a line in Golden Gate in Onegin stanza rhymes but not always preserving the metric pattern) in several poems by Australian poet Gwen Harwood, for instance the first part of 'Class of 1927' and 'Sea Eagle' (the first employs a humorous Byronic tone, but the second adapts the stanza to a spare lyrical mood, which is good evidence of the form's versatility) and in the verse novel 'Unholyland' by Aidan Andrew Dun. John Fuller's 1980 'The Illusionists' and Jon Stallworthy's 1987 'The Nutcracker' used this stanza form, and Vikram Seth's 1986 novel The Golden Gate is written wholly in Onegin stanzas. Nevertheless, the Onegin stanza, being easily recognisable, is strongly identified as belonging to its creator, and its use in œuvres of any kind implicitly triggers a reading of the particular text against the backdrop of Pushkin's imagery and worldview. In Russian poetry following Pushkin, the form has been utilized by authors as diverse as Mikhail Lermontov, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Jurgis Baltrušaitis and Valery Pereleshin, in genres ranging from one-stanza lyrical piece to voluminous autobiography. Because the second quatrain (lines 5-8) consists of two independent couplets, the poet may introduce a strong thematic break after line 6, which is not feasible in Petrarchan or Shakespearian sonnets. Like the Shakespearean sonnet, the Onegin stanza may be divided into three quatrains and a closing couplet (normally without stanza breaks or indentations), and it has a total of seven rhymes, rather than the four or five rhymes of the Petrarchan sonnet.

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