Analysis of Fireflies
Aron Lancaster 1998
Fireflies in summer
melt into the midnight sun
in the dark, you fly.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 10010 101011 00111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 66 |
| Words | 13 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
About this poem
I saw a firefly passed by and I wrote a haiku about it.
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