Analysis of Bright Lines



“Cockroach in my coffee.
Needle in my arm.
Take me to the farm.”   Aerosmith.

“The lovers cried.
The poets dreamed.”  Don MaClean.

“For the wisdom of a lifetime, nobody can tell.”  Rod Stewart.

“To each his own.  It’s all unknown.”  Bob Dylan

“The magic rats own dream gunned them down.”  Bruce Springsteen.

“Working in the field you get your back burned.   Working at the wheel you get your facts learned.”   Bruce Springsteen.

“Living is easy with eyes closed.  Misunderstanding all you can see.  It’s getting had to be someone; but it all works out.  It doesn’t matter much to me.”  John Lennon.


Scheme XXX XX X A B B A
Poetic Form Etheree  (20%)
Metre 10110 10011 1110110 0101 0101101 1010101111110 11111101110 01011111111 1000111111101011111111 10110111001011111101111111111110111110
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 639
Words 123
Sentences 21
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 44
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 63
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Written on February 24, 2025

Submitted on February 24, 2024

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