Analysis of Sonnet # 3



It's summertime, my heart indeed is sad.
And though the birds are now with their sweet song,
My heart aches much with pain that is so bad.
And my young mind does feel my life so wrong.
I think it's winter, thoughts about it, I mean
That have me nervous for my single soul.
I'll not have loving kisses, kisses clean,
Or the warm body of a female soul.
So, you can clearly see to every man
Not always fair whatever's meant by life.
And to buy pearls or gold, what poor man can?
These facts, my friend, are sharper than a knife.
       Here I shed tears for things that are not mellow.
       And then my thoughts to gentle my own sorrow.


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Poetic Form Shakespearean sonnet 
Metre 110110111 0101111111 1111111111 0111111111 11110101111 1111011101 1111010101 101101011 11110111001 11110111 0111111111 1111110101 11111111110 01111101110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 635
Words 133
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 476
Words per stanza (avg) 122
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Submitted by luisestable1 on May 05, 2023

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Luis A. Estable

Luis A. Estable, poet for more than twenty years. Single, no children; originally from Cuba. Writes poems in several styles: sonnets, songs, haikus, children's verses, free style verse and more. Has published three books of poetry: " Eighty-Three Sonnets, Book One," Religious, Thirty Sonnets," "My Mind Simply Saying. All of them available on Amazon books. Has degrees from SFCC and EWU. Lives in Spokane, WA. Thinks that poetry is the most compact and beautiful expression known to man, and that a poem never reaches perfection; the work goes one and this is a good advice to keep, especially for young poets. more…

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