Analysis of Burning Lantern



Gently and vividly you created me; why?
To fly me in the dark sky

I came to your childish hands
You sent me off to the Swedish lands

With an aromatic candle shinning in
As a golden little tin

I went through the clouds higher and higher
With the flamed thing, it was a fire

Hearing children crying out as a melodious pattern
"Ah! see that glamorous flying lantern"

I see my fire was overjoyed
"Be controlled" I cried

The fire which shone me lit up soon
As the dark clouds hit the moon

I was just ashes nothing left more
A fallen crashed lantern, down by the shore


Scheme AA BB CC DD EE XX FF GG
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 100100101011 1110011 1111101 111110101 110101010 1010101 1110110010 101111010 101010110010010 1111001010 11110101 10111 010111111 1011101 111101011 0101101101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 567
Words 111
Sentences 3
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 58
Words per stanza (avg) 14

About this poem

I wrote this poem in 2021, to show the sadness of a burning lantern.

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Submitted by Methmi on June 02, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Methmi Mandara

Methmi Mandara is a 14 years old (2021) poet who completed primary education at Sujatha Vidyalaya Nugegoda and now studies at Gothami Balika Vidyalaya, Colombo Sri Lanka. She also a writer and a translator more…

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