Fireflies
Surani Chandrasekara 1975 (Colombo)
FIREFLIES
Hung upon a willow tree
Weaken & heard no plea
Oh! can they flee...
No one could ever foresee
The moon's slenderly touch
Crickets sang merrily so much
Jasmine stars danced with their bunch
In the breeze where the willow tree hushed
She shed tears with no fear
Danced to the rhythm to free her dears
The feathery grass kissed the jars
The fireflies fled with the evening stars
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Written on July 13, 2022
Submitted by dinali.chandrasekara on July 25, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A A A A B B X X X C C C |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 403 |
Words | 87 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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