Analysis of Lightning



His love was

a lightning bolt

that split her

bones and left

her stalked out

on the grass.

She made his

heart beat like

thunder and his

soul sing with


Scheme X X X X X X A X A X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (80%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 111 0101 110 101 011 101 111 111 1001 111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 169
Words 43
Sentences 2
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 12
Words per stanza (avg) 3
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Written on 2016

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 04, 2022

Modified on April 28, 2023

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