Analysis of Sonnet Of Motherhood XL
Zora Bernice May Cross 1890 (Eagle Farm, Queensland) – 1964 (Glenbrook, New South Wales)
A miracle of miracles is here.
Take off your shoes. This place is holy ground.
No man-child ours like that the shepherd found
By dreaming Mary when the Star burned clear.
Our God has given us a woman, dear,
390ഊWith satin skin her dimpling shoulders round.
No pinkest shell with sea-blown bubbles crowned
Could match the marvel of her tiny ear.
How like to me, and yet ’tis you—all you.
I dare not touch her. Take your soul, My Own.
Set in my body with your mind, your sight,
Your dreams and thoughts with every promise true—
A queen to sit upon a regal throne
With a man’s soul won out of woman’s right.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100110011 1111111101 11110110101 1101010111 10111010101 110101101 1101111101 1101010101 1111011111 1111011111 1011011111 11011100101 0111010101 101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 615 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 236 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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