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 |
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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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