Well. Somewhat intriguing, perhaps. The nursery-rhyme feel mentioned by the DG is one of the things it has going for it.
But--and I speak as one who likes to bend the boundaries of "sonnet" a bit--it seems to me too much of a stretch to call this a sonnet, just because the word "sonnet" is in its title, and choose it as a finalist in a contest meant to be specifically for sonnets!
I felt hugely jarred in every way at "nonplussed,"-- a word that definitely has its place in poetry and prose, but this place in this poem is not it.
I do rather like the last four lines...
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