Analysis of Sonnet # 19

Luis A Estable 1958 (Oriente, Cuba)



No pretty face can tell me that the heart
Is shown in eyes of blue or fair a smile.
I know of gentle features, pleasant art,
Their minds so cruel that make tears look so vile.
Yes, beauty's only pleasing to betray
And keep the eyes away from bored to death.
So sad! The eyes will never see the day
They'll tell the soul the way the nose does breath.
So, knowing now the eyes tell not the deed,
No wonder, man, the eyes can't master looks.
In vain the way to try the face to read.
So sad1 The face will ne'er be read like books.
A candle lit I've for the sight indeed
If you consider, it for fair does bleed.


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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 607
Words 132
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 463
Words per stanza (avg) 123
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Submitted by luisestable1 on June 10, 2023

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Luis A Estable

Poet for more than twenty years; lives in Spokane, WA. Single and has no children. Writes poetry in several styles: sonnets, songs, haikus, children's verse, free style poetry and more. Has published three books of poems: Eighty-Three Sonnets, Book One," Religious, Thirty Sonnets," "My Mind Simply Saying." All of them available on Amazon books more…

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