Analysis of mirrored
Anny McNeilus 1982 (Minnesota)
Who is this girl looking at me in this mirror?
This face so full of hurt and fear...
Fear of remembering how to be grown...
fear of climbing out of this valley of pain all alone....
My hopes and prayers are aimed to the skies...
As the tears fall in torrents from green eyes...
Such towering mountains to climb...
All so sureal, so sublime...
Each high, another escape, taking her away...
Even If only for not even a day....
Who is this girl looking at me in this mirror?
A woman once so confident and holding no fear...
Once carefree and on a path,
Now off road and being told that music is math...
Once so lovely and sure of his love...
Now reaching with her arms stretching for help from high above...
Addiction engulfs her being...
She fell so far, without even seeing...
Who is this girl?!
No longer in control...
What happened to that dress with the swirl?
The mother who sat with her children on a grassy nole....
One more trip to anywhere but here....
Just one more journey to a place I feel no fear...
may 5 2012
Scheme | AbccddeeffAbgghhiijkjklbf |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110110110 11111101 1101001111 11101111011101 110111101 1011010111 11001011 111101 110100110001 10110111001 111110110110 0101110001011 110101 111010111011 111001111 11010110111101 0101010 1111011010 1111 110001 110111101 01011101010101 11111011 111101011111 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 997 |
Words | 192 |
Sentences | 24 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 25 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 759 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 192 |
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Submitted on February 23, 2016
Modified on April 26, 2023
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