Analysis of Firefly
Leonid Rozumenko 1961 (Kyiv)
Illusive sparkle in the darkness
Through whispering of leaves
Was a phantom of unlikeness
And a daughter of Eve.
My shadow wants to scream, -
So puzzled was her reply.
Then the creature of my dream
Just gone like a firefly.
The logic is an item
When a woman’s on a list.
It’s hard to trace the atom,
But it somewhere exists.
One sample of self-violence
Enriches dialog, -
Don’t break the lady’s silence, -
It is the way to talk!
| Scheme | AXAX BCBC DXDX EXEX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
| Metre | 010100010 110011 101011 001011 11111 1101001 1010111 111010 0101110 101101 1111010 11101 11011100 010100 110110 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 425 |
| Words | 81 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Written on 2001
Submitted by leorozum on November 05, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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