Analysis of Mirror, Mirror
Spike Milligan 1918 (Ahmednagar, India) – 2002 (Rye, United Kingdom)
A young spring-tender girl
combed her joyous hair
'You are very ugly' said the mirror.
But,
on her lips hung
a smile of dove-secret loveliness,
for only that morning had not
the blind boy said,
'You are beautiful'?
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011101 10101 1110101010 1 1011 0111101 11011011 0111 11100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 206 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 166 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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