Analysis of The Looking Glass



I could see the future,
Looking through The Looking Glass.
I could see the the past,
Looking through The Looking Glass.
If only I could make it better here and now,
Looking through The Looking Glass.


Scheme aBcBdB
Poetic Form
Metre 111010 1010101 111001 1010101 110111110101 1010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 194
Words 36
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 158
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted on October 13, 2009

Modified on March 05, 2023

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