Analysis of Demanding Reflection
Pretty faces do not do so well
A face can destroy a soul
The beautiful ones often rebel
One's moral will take its toll.
Mirrors, mirrors shut all of us in
We cannot, will not look away
The evil reflection starts to win
The pink turns to an ugly gray.
But we stare longingly,intently, hungrily on
For we do not want to disappoint
But we ourselves are already far gone
For this is our only breaking point.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 101011111 0110101 010011010 1101111 101011110 11011101 010010111 01111101 11111001 11111101 11001101011 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 392 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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