Analysis of About—Face
The mirror calling deepest
is the one that you avoid
Images run left then right
your back turned paranoid
Unwillingness to turn around
in fear of what you’ll see
Illusion as your proffered choice
—reflection waits unseen
(Dreamsleep: April, 2023)
Scheme | XAXA XXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010 1011101 1001111 11110 01001101 011111 01011101 010101 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 253 |
Words | 43 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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