Analysis of Your mirror frame
Emily Pauline Johnson 1861 – 1913
Methinks I see your mirror frame,
Ornate with photographs of them.
Place mine therein, for, all the same,
I'll have my little laughs at them.
For girls may come, and girls may go,
I think I have the best of them;
And yet this photograph I know
You'll toss among the rest of them.
I cannot even hope that you
Will put me in your locket, dear;
Nor costly frame will I look through,
Nor bide in your breast pocket, dear.
For none your heart monopolize,
You favour such a nest of them.
So I but hope your roving eyes
Seek mine among the rest of them.
For saucy sprite, and noble dame,
And many a dainty maid of them
Will greet me in your mirror frame,
And share your kisses laid on them.
And yet, sometimes I fancy, dear,
You hold me as the best of them.
So I'm content if I appear
To-night with all the rest of them.
Scheme | ABAB CBCB DEDE FBFB ABAB EBEB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111101 0111011 11011101 11110111 11110111 11110111 0111011 11010111 11010111 11101101 11011111 11011101 1111010 1110111 11111101 11010111 11010101 010010111 11101101 01110111 01011101 11110111 11101101 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 833 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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