Analysis of Lightbulbs



You always tell me of the
e l e c t r i c i t y
coiled in your bones, and
how I put it there.
But my dear, you are one to talk,
for you've got me
burning like the wire in
lightbulbs.


Scheme ABCDEFGH
Poetic Form
Metre 111110 11111111111 10110 11111 11111111 1111 1010100 1
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 182
Words 47
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 132
Words per stanza (avg) 45

About this poem

This poem was inspired by a line in Hilary Duff's song "Tattoo."

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Written on 2016

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 04, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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