Analysis of Reflection
I SEE MY REFLECTION in THE WINDOW.
THE LINES on MY FACE THAT WERE not THERE BEFORE.
AGING is SLOWLY CREEPing IN.
THE INEXORABLE PROCESS of SENESCENCE and DEATH.
TO WATCH MY SURROUNDINGS CHANGING SLOWLY
OR not NOTICING at ALL.
WHERE TIME SEEMS to TAKE US,
WE CAN'T ESCAPE the
EFFECTS
THAT AGING casts UPON US,
THE LOSSES WE ENDURED.
IN A LIFE TIME
WE have MEASURED
THE good TIMES AND THE bad,
THE REFLECTION in THE WINDOW
SEEMS TO BE the least IMPORTANT OF IT ALL.
| Scheme | AXXXXB CXXCX XXXAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110100010 01111101101 10110100 010001101001 1110101010 1110011 111111 11010 01 1101011 010101 0011 1110 011001 00100010 11101010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 448 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on September 08, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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