Analysis of Broken Mirrors
It’s easy to criticize…
harder to know
The poison unleashing,
reflections aglow
Assumption to breed
where temerity hides
The lie in sheep’s clothing
—truth buried inside
(Dreamsleep: January, 2021)
| Scheme | XA BA XX BX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110110 1011 010010 01001 01011 101001 010110 11001 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 197 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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