Analysis of Firefly
On a tar black night,
A firefly dances drunkenly overhead.
An only sun in endless darkness,
It flies haphazardly into bushes.
Seemingly unaware of its new radiance,
It hovers amongst the beech leaves,
Throwing greens, reds and yellows,
Upon the blackness.
Imagination sees planets awoken into daylight,
From the brightly lit to the far off wax of Neptune,
A family bound in light.
Then off flies the fire
And the magic of existence is gone.
Scheme | ABCDEFGCAHAIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111 010101101 110101010 1110000110 10001111100 11001011 1011010 01010 00101101011 1010110111110 0100101 111010 0010101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 428 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 353 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on March 21, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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