Analysis of "The Lightning Bugs"
I love to watch the lightning bugs,
flying all around.
Blinking their lights all through the air
and sometimes on the ground.
It's such a sight for my eyes,
when hundreds do I see.
Blinking here and blinking there
and sometimes simultaneously.
I look at them in wonder,
as each does light the night.
Feeling like they're part of me,
watching them in flight.
Now every summer I come to watch,
those bugs put on their show.
Flying high and flying low,
blinking, blinking as they go.
| Scheme | XABA XCBC XDCD XEEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
| Metre | 11110101 10101 10111101 001101 1101111 110111 1010101 00101000 1111010 111101 1011111 10101 1100101111 111111 1010101 1010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 465 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on September 05, 2015
Modified on April 18, 2023
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