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
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Written on May 22, 2023
Submitted by CorneighHoff on May 22, 2023
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Scheme | ABAB BABA ABAB CC |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 548 |
Words | 102 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
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