Analysis of Cracked



Through the glass passed the masses
of reflections which upon first
inspection seemed limitless in their
scope but on a cracked perspective
split and multiply in uncounted
copies of one image in reality
all eyes fixed upon the one thing
most disliked by those who
care to gaze in the first place
without the haze of a mask
to shade the scope of lost hope
in the skin which age has played
so hard a game upon and shame
upon those whose goals have been to
wrend apart the shattered image
of youth and outlived worth in
the face of saving face in front
of those whose distortions have destroyed
beauty lost with unwanted age


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLMHNOPQR
Poetic Form
Metre 1011010 10101011 010110001 11101010 1010010 101110010 11101011 101111 1110011 0101101 1101111 0011111 11010101 01111111 10101010 110110 01110101 111010101 10110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 603
Words 115
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 507
Words per stanza (avg) 115
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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