Analysis of Why Women Hate Mirrors

Harmony Mendelow 1945 (Brooklyn, New York)



Why Women Hate Mirrors

Did you ever think about the fact
You never really see your face
Unless reflected back at you
From some refracted place

The mirror in the morning
That starts my brand new day
Makes me feel, at least I think,
That yes, I look okay

Then oh my God, I pass a car
A window in my view
To find ten pounds arrived
I never knew I grew

Oh please it gets much worse
I know you know the drill
The different ways it starts to show
The imperfections from the glow

As sunlight hits the rearview glass
And suddenly my heart does gasp
To think, oh dear, that cannot be
Oh really is that really me

I hate to even mention this
The biggest culprit on the list

The pain it caused is never gone
Each visit to the hair salon
It’s not just once I do repeat
It’s every state and every seat

And dare I even go there
The very worst of all

I hate to say the hard cold truths
But none as bad as try-on booths

I wish so much that I could see
A truer version back at me
A better picture of my stare
Without distortion from the glare

You’d think with all the highest tech
A mirror standard could be set
To make us feel what is more real
A simple task to get and yet

But anyway perhaps some day

Now home sweet home I have arrived
A chance to breathe and feel revived

Upon my mirror I do say
You know sweet girl, you look okay


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Poetic Form
Metre 110110 111010101 11010111 01010111 1111 0100010 111111 1111111 11111 11111101 010011 111101 110111 111111 111101 010011111 0010101 1110101 01001111 11111101 11011101 11110101 01010101 01111101 11010101 11111101 1100101001 0111011 010111 11110111 11111111 11111111 01010111 01010111 01010101 11110101 01010111 11111111 01011101 1100111 11111101 01110101 01110111 1111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,336
Words 286
Sentences 1
Stanzas 15
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 4, 2, 2, 4, 4, 1, 2, 2
Lines Amount 44
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 69
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Written on 2020

Submitted by dezyner1111 on April 21, 2022

Modified on May 03, 2023

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