Analysis of A Crooked Looking Glass
James McIntyre 1828 (Forres) – 1906
Dangerous effects of seeing onesself in a crooked glass.
A maiden cried, ' Alas ! .
With horror I'll expire,
Unless you bring me
That true glass
I bought of McIntyre.'
| Scheme | A ABXAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10001110100101 010101 110101 01111 111 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 171 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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