Analysis of Love's eyes

Jimmy Lisotto 1970 (Holyoke)



I open the true windows of the soul
To see you as you are meant to be seen.
As the eyes drink in, the lips will extol
The virtues, the beauty, of one so serene.

Kindness in your eyes cannot be denied,
Such deep limpid pools! I could drown in such!  
Your smile, in my soul, does always reside,
An alluring curve with a tender touch.

Though your fair is of a discrete season,
Differing from the normal changing course,
To close the windows, there is no reason,
For doing so would cause immense remorse.

My eyes always find you pleasing to see,
My eyes always find you pleasing to me!


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Poetic Form Shakespearean sonnet 
Metre 1100110101 1111111111 1011001101 01001011101 1001110101 111111101 110111101 1010110101 1111100110 1001010101 1101011110 1101110101 111111011 111111011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 586
Words 125
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 28

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A sonnet about love

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Written on June 25, 2023

Submitted by jimmyl.11861 on July 03, 2023

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