Analysis of Mirrors



i like to dress for an imaginary girl
(we will meet each other soon) by putting on
a silk tie with subtle Chinese birds
sewn in.
she may be picturing me in her mirror
as she applies exactly the necessary line
of mascara to lengthen her lashes and darken
her eyes.
whatever begins as a mystery ends as a blind,
the nuances so well known
that birds chirp violently at their mirror images
but the pools
as they are revealed in the sunlight of
every accidental nod of the eyes remain
calm as a mirror in which there is no
image ever seen.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP
Poetic Form
Metre 11111101001 11111011101 011110011 10 11110010010 110101001001 1010110010010 01 1001101001101 0100111 11110001110100 101 111010011 100010110101 1101001111 10101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 534
Words 106
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 426
Words per stanza (avg) 103
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Submitted by Robert Ronnow on March 23, 2023

Modified on March 23, 2023

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