Analysis of Sonnet I: Can’t Seem to Remember

K.T. Brown 1990 (Greenwood, SC)



It’s been a while since I have written a poem.
I am focused on a dream yet coming.
I seem not to remember what I’ve learned,
Seeking that desire for which I yearn,
My first love is fictional writing,
That true dream that I am desiring.

I know this sonnet sounds a bit too fucked up.
But my rhythmic sound needs a check-up.
It’s like I have amnesia or something.
Where have I left off? Got to get grinding.
I seem to have forgotten my poetry.
Yet it continues like a rotary.


Scheme XAXXAA BBAACC
Poetic Form
Metre 110111110010 1110101110 1111010111 1010101111 111110010 1111110100 11110101111 111011011 1111010110 1111111110 11110101100 1101010100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 481
Words 104
Sentences 10
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 183
Words per stanza (avg) 46

About this poem

The following poem is a sonnet based on not writing for a while and trying to get back into the groove of writing.

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Written on November 20, 2019

Submitted by kt_thewriter1021 on April 16, 2023

Modified on April 16, 2023

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K.T. Brown

K.T. Brown is an African American poet, novelist, and essayist associated with Afrofuturism and Hip Hop. more…

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