Analysis of Mandy's Sonnet
Her soul, which once illuminated, grows
Uneasy, perplexing and recluse,
And creeps into such quiet slumbering muse
That what we often see she does not know,
But thinks we travel lightly not to plow
Her troubled need for love-enabled clues.
We tell her that Life's Providence may choose
To break her brittle heart with harmful vows --
For what she earns is not all Heaven-sent
And future days are not mapped out by choice.
Her wandering paths that enemies present
Soon just as well display her happiest joys.
So growing still, but not by labor spent,
Her soul demeans its price, so thus, its voice.
Scheme | XXAXXAAX BCXXBC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101001 010010001 01011101001 1111011111 1111010111 0101110101 1101110011 1101011101 1111111101 0101111111 01001110010 11110101001 1101111101 0101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 584 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 238 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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