Analysis of The Mirror
I come to a sudden halt when I see
someone staring back at me
a picture of a women
with a strange look in her eye
who’s that? I wonder out loud
I’m not sure, not really
Staring at her longer, then I understand
I know who she is, sort of
but she’s changed so much
since the last time I saw her
only her eyes are the same
and that look, I’ve seen it before
it’s a reflection, an echo
an image etched in my mind
from the last time we met
as I reach out to her
she reaches towards me
then I know, as I feel the coolness
of the hard, flat surface of a mirror
©️ L Conway 2021
Scheme | AAXXXAXXXBXXXXXBAXB X |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (50%) |
Metre | 1110101111 110111 0101010 1011001 1111011 111110 1010101101 1111111 11111 1011110 1001101 01111101 10010110 1101011 101111 111110 110011 111111010 1011101010 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 564 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 19, 1 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 217 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
About this poem
Reflections
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Written on 2021
Submitted by MidlandAngel68 on September 07, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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