Analysis of A(n) (Un)Successful Sonnet



Waking up at 6 am to drink lemon water
Won’t make you feel less empty inside
Or your mental health less likely to teeter totter
When you push all your needs aside.

Instead lets try: belly laughs and dining fine
Late nights watching a sappy movie with popcorn
Soaking in your emotions so you can later shine
Digging deep in the dirt where all plants are born.

I’ll take my success with hot sauce on the side
And all my days spent kissing your soft, plump cheek
I’ll take it as a purring cat with a velvet soft hide
And reading into the dim hours cuddled at your oblique.

Still, finishing this sonnet in time for today’s deadline
Will make me feel like I met part of mine.


Scheme ABAB CDCD BEBE CC
Poetic Form
Metre 10111111010 111111001 1110111011010 11111101 01111010101 1110011011 1001010111101 10100111111 11101111101 01111101111 11110101101011 010010110101101 1100110011011 1111111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 689
Words 139
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 133
Words per stanza (avg) 32

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Submitted on April 21, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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