Analysis of Sonnet # 203

Luis A. Estable 1958 (Oriente, Cuba)



Let me a youth today, no older bring.
A flesh untouched, acquainted not with men.
That time when she appears an ever spring.
Her V a paper ne'er on has writ a pen
To turn her eyes away from tricky beauty.
Her teach that the outside than love not better.
So, she becomes one just and kind a lady
Who lowers looks and care receives true lover.
Let me a youth untouched possess my own;
Her teach to never have such greedy sight.
And if I let her go when woman grown
Hopes have  she'll see the heart and thus judge right.
      But I my purpose will not really try
      Unless sixteen, at least, the butterfly.


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Poetic Form Shakespearean sonnet 
Metre 1101011101 0101010111 1111011101 01010111101 11010111010 01101111110 11011101010 11010101110 1101010111 0111011101 0111011101 1111010111 1111011101 010111010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 607
Words 125
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 462
Words per stanza (avg) 117

About this poem

A sonnet about possessing a youth before the mind is bent or prone to do bad or unwanted things or acts.

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Written on March 02, 2023

Submitted by luisestable1 on March 02, 2023

Modified on April 01, 2023

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Luis A. Estable

Luis A. Estable, poet for more than twenty years. Single, no children; originally from Cuba. Writes poems in several styles: sonnets, songs, haikus, children's verses, free style verse and more. Has published three books of poetry: " Eighty-Three Sonnets, Book One," Religious, Thirty Sonnets," "My Mind Simply Saying. All of them available on Amazon books. Has degrees from SFCC and EWU. Lives in Spokane, WA. Thinks that poetry is the most compact and beautiful expression known to man, and that a poem never reaches perfection; the work goes one and this is a good advice to keep, especially for young poets. more…

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