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 |
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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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