Analysis of Looking for your own face
Your face is neither infinite nor ephemeral.
You can never see your own face,
only a reflection, not the face itself.
So you sigh in front of mirrors
and cloud the surface.
It's better to keep your breath cold.
Hold it, like a diver does in the ocean.
One slight movement, the mirror-image goes.
Don't be dead or asleep or awake.
Don't be anything.
What you most want,
what you travel around wishing to find,
lose yourself as lovers lose themselves,
and you'll be that.
| Scheme | XXX XX XXX XX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111010010100 11101111 10001010101 11101110 01010 11011111 11101010010 1110010101 111101101 1110 1111 1110011011 101110101 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 464 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 3, 2, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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