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
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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