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Which of the following describes the form of the poem "The Mirror" by Sylvia Plath?
A. Three stanzas, five lines each
B. Three stanzas, eight lines each
C. Two stanzas, four lines each
D. Two stanzas, nine lines eac

Answer 1

Hey, can you post the poem for us to see?

Answer 2

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful ‚
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.

Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

Answer 3

So a stanza is sort of like a paragraph but for poems, so how many do you see here?

Answer 4

2

Answer 5

Exactly. And how many lines do each of the two stanzas have?

Answer 6

oH its D :)

Answer 7

You're correct. :)

Answer 8

Thank you!