Analysis of "When mirroring becomes self reflection"
Jack Graham 1975 (Belfast)
Sometimes you think you found the rainbow’s end
self congratulatory know how much
You’ve progressed, a process learned to trust
Not recognising we were losing touch
Tired, all you have never being enough
When even sweet taste of me is too much
Mirror shows only inadequacy
disqualifies the connection as such
intuition busy with told you so's
minutes like miles then as the distance grows
no-one is ready for love, seems untrue
the common denominator is you
"ever been depressed" thought you asked in jest
proceed to ghost, rather than give your best
Scheme | XAXA XAXA BBCC DD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111011 101000111 10101111 1110101 10111101001 1101111111 1011001000 010001011 010101111 1011110101 1111011101 010010011 1010111101 0111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 558 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
Sonnet strict 10 syllable lines with Shakespearean couplet on the end. It's a poem about the self doubt that comes from being ghosted in any kind of relationship.
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