Analysis of In The Looking Glass
I would look through the window at feeble old men
and secretly smirk
and secretly pity
Now the window looks back and its message is clear
that old man is you
and the picture’s not pretty
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2020)
| Scheme | XXA XXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101011011 01001 010010 101011011011 11111 0010110 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 220 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 09, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on April 09, 2020
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