Analysis of Portrait



Bright mirror,
your eye can't see more than reflected.
Judgment fits uneasily upon you,
at once you reveal too much
and less than you know.

Through your lens afflictions of time,
wrinkled, bulgy, sunken -
fleshy evidence of life's push and pull
as days slip into musing peeks
upon your witnessing portrait.

Though we appear as one,
though as one we glance,
echoes are your only return.
May we fuse and die as one,
- I in you and you in me -
and beautifully dance on broken glass.


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Poetic Form
Metre 110 111111010 1010100011 1110111 01111 11101011 10110 1010011101 11101101 01110010 110111 11111 10111001 1110111 1010101 010011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 481
Words 101
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 6
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 124
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Written on May 05, 2023

Submitted by JaceSon on May 05, 2023

Modified by JaceSon on May 06, 2023

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JaceSon P. Barrus

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