Analysis of Fireflies

Paul Leckner 1985 (Kansas)



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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