Analysis of moth

Joshua Merton 2006 (Cape Town)



i see the light in your eyes
the beauty in your smile
i feel drawn to you
like a moth to a flame
unsure
whether i’ll be burned or not


Scheme ABCDEF
Poetic Form
Metre 1101011 010011 11111 101101 01 1011111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 139
Words 33
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 103
Words per stanza (avg) 30

About this poem

this is a poem about a girl that i may or may not be falling for, i’m still unsure of my feelings towards her

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Written on February 15, 2023

Submitted by jmerton01 on February 15, 2023

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Joshua Merton

a 16 year old high school student from Cape Town, South Africa hoping to study english literature in university more…

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