Analysis of Sonnet # 18

Luis Estable 1958 (Oriente,)



What has my destiny so cruelly done?
Why I so badly treated by this time?
Should I suppose for me there is no fun?
And that my life to live an ever climb?
If I see her, no rosy price but death.
But then not her; yes, hell is paradise.
All over me her name: Elizabeth!"
I mean why do I have to agonize?
If human I'm, why, earth, with races this?
I know one thing: blood everywhere is read.
It's true, I wish the serpent with her hiss
Could make us see we all some blemish spread.
Yes, eyes! The way you justice do is sadness!
I've cried so much my pain I am so tearless


Scheme ABABCDEFGHGHID
Poetic Form
Metre 1111001101 1111010111 1101111111 0111111101 1110110111 111011110 1101010100 111111110 1101111101 111111011 1111010101 1111111101 11011101110 1111111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 568
Words 129
Sentences 14
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 425
Words per stanza (avg) 117
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Submitted by luisestable1 on December 25, 2023

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