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 |
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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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