Sonnet Analysis

My Poem Analysis

Italian Sonnet written by James DeFord is the poem being analyzed.  This poem is about a young man trying to convince this girl to give him another chance.  The girl has broken the heart of this writer, and he is begging her to give him another chance with him. This writer is feeling really depressed and alone. This girl turned him down and broke his heart. This story is just him asking the girl to give him another chance and the reasons she should do this.  This poem shows imagery because he said in the poem “give back your kissing breathe” which is like he is asking for her to give back the breath which she used to kiss him with earlier.  He is asking her to come back and kiss him again. The poem continued throughout with the guy begging for a second chance and then one strong last line at the end for his final plea.

This poem has rhyming but has a non distinctive pattern.  The poem’s rhyme pattern is  ABBAACCADEDFAA.  It used a hyperbole in the following words, “ kissing breathe”.  Most of this poem is imagery.  For example, witted roses, kissing breathe, great strength, and broken heart.  The mood is the same in each stanza.  The mood is a mixed feeling of sadness and hopefulness.  

     I think that this poem is a regular love story like everyday love, but it has much more passion in it.  It takes a lot of courage to try and convince someone to take you back when the final result might not be what you wanted it to be.  I felt the poem was easy to understand because it is a typical love story and the wording was easy, but it came from the heart, and that also helped make it easy to understand.  I think the author should have had a distinctive pattern instead of jumping all over the place.  It would've made the poem more complex and more interesting.  I really liked the topic, and I feel the author has done a good job reflecting his feelings in words.  

    I enjoyed this poem.  It brought a new element to a love poem by talking about getting one more chance and why that person should take him back.  It was very easy to understand. I feel depressed sometimes that he missed out at love.  The authors background is that he used to be a cop.  But then he was arrested for child porn, 2 counts of it.  If you read the poem knowing his background, the last four lines really base on his crime.  Him being a cop then becoming a criminal is just sad.  I pick this poem because it was good but knowing his background made me think of the meaning of this poem differently.

KR