Analysis of Man in the mirror

Robert Pippen 1981 (Jackson Mississippi)



Always said I would be better than I was raised to see,
None of the men in my life were the man I wanted to be,
When I now look in the mirror they are the men staring back at me,

Why has life left me empty and so alone,
How is the pain more than any I have ever known,
Love ones we need the most have all passed and now gone,

When all we've done is cause others pain,
We have only lived up to that man's name,
Our lives turning out like it has no one but selves we can blame,
And the man in the mirror we've become one and the same,


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111110111111 110101100111011 11110010110110111 11111100101 1101111011101 111101111011 111111101 1110111111 1011011111111111 00100101011001
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 534
Words 127
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 4
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 40
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 135
Words per stanza (avg) 39

About this poem

Growing up in a domestic environment I never wanted to be like that in any way I thought I could do something that would help me not become the man who was the quick temperatured and abusive one that I knew.

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Written on March 14, 2024

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Robert Pippen

42 been writing poetry for 20 plus years started in prison writing what I felt. Then it was different things that happened in and around my life. more…

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