Analysis of Fireflies
Fireflies alight
They are everywhere I look
Lighting up the night
Everyone I see
Sparks another memory
From my childhood
Catching them in jars
Running barefoot in the yard
While dusk settles in
| Scheme | AXA BBX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001 111011 10101 1011 1010100 111 10101 101001 11100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 185 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
About this poem
This is written in haiku and is about my childhood
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Written on September 13, 2021
Submitted by paull.86328 on September 13, 2021
Modified on April 19, 2023
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