Analysis of Little flame/Only wish



What would be your only wish?

Did you know that the moon is really a fish?

You can wait 30 years but for a fallen star

Unconcerned and yet hoping

That we weren't so far

Strive to drink all the wine in the world you can find

Kill your lungs with the smoke

To get out of your mind

Get your family settled down in the Var

Have nice children, a garden, a wife

Having all that you have

Why is there still a void?

You keep pushing it down

You just get too annoyed

But there's something inside you

Like a tremor, a blemish

It just doesn't shut up

Little flame that won't vanish

It keeps whispering, singing, returning at night

And it's worse than your nightmares

As you know - it is right

20 years have you wasted on all this indifference

What you thought of true love

Turned to be simply limerence

When your children successfully finish their school

You'll get out

Hope you won't be too cruel

How to silence this voice

You will learn all throughout

Only when you start living

From your Soul, not your mind

When that happens

The day you're awake and aware

Come say hi

We'll have countless stories to share


Scheme A A B C B D X D B X X E X E X A X A F G F X X G X H X X H C D X I X I
Poetic Form Tetractys  (23%)
Metre 1111101 11110111001 1111110101 010110 111011 111101001111 111101 111111 11100101001 111001001 101111 111101 111011 111101 1110011 1010010 111011 1011110 111001001011 011111 111111 111101110100 111111 111101 111001001011 111 1111110 111011 111101 1011110 111111 1110 01101001 111 11101011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,161
Words 254
Sentences 5
Stanzas 35
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 25
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by yuliya.ladnaya on March 10, 2022

Modified on March 08, 2023

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