Analysis of A sonnet on pregnancy



your features radiant with primal grace
your body in obedience gives room
to our expanding life, a hiding place,
a safe and silent sanctuary womb

expecting stars to lighten up the gloom
and earths & moons to fill in empty space
this mortal race awakes but to resume
the tread of daily work’s circuitous pace

our expectations show a common face
no different from what first we did presume
but nature, in its love and warm embrace
provides new life, sets flowers in full bloom

a bosom raised in graceful pregnancy
the future of a race in infancy


Scheme ABAB BABA ABAB CC
Poetic Form
Metre 1101001101 1100010011 11001010101 010101001 0101110101 011110101 110111101 01110101001 1001010101 11001111101 1100110101 0111110011 0101010100 0101010100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 548
Words 102
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 110
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Written on May 22, 2023

Submitted by CorneighHoff on May 22, 2023

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