Analysis of Write me a Sonnet
Jim Richardson 1941 (London)
Write me a sonnet with love and beauty
Beyond compare
Write me a sonnetof warnth and solace
And comfort O' so rare
Pen your lines of freedom and peace and
Tell of the wind and rain
Speak of dreams both failed and real
Tell of things never the same
Relate of hush and solitude and the
Stillness of the night
Voice the morning mist and sit in harmony
With the early light
Recite the human frailities with a deep
And searching mind
Ask the Lord's forgiveness perhaps he
Will be kind
State the sorrow pain and grief and all
The sadness in our role
When all is said and done perhaps God
Will embrace our soul
| Scheme | ABCBDEFGHIAIJKAKLMNM |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (25%) |
| Metre | 1101011010 0101 11011010 010111 111110010 110101 1111101 1111001 011101000 10101 10101010100 10101 010101101 0101 101010011 111 101010101 0100101 111101011 101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 651 |
| Words | 120 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 20 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 486 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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