Analysis of Keep a light on



Love is a bird
Which flies in faraway meadows
Each night,when I open my eyes
Love hurts me like a sharpened arrow
Full of wants and desires.

So I open my lamp
And pray to the almighty
For a happy ending
To my earthly love
While my heart keeps on burning like fire


Scheme XXXXX XXXXX
Poetic Form Etheree  (40%)
Metre 1101 1101011 1111011 111101010 1110010 111011 0110010 101010 11101 1111110110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 264
Words 56
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 5
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Written on November 15, 2023

Submitted on November 14, 2023

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