Composition of Lie Derivatives

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I was wondering if anyone has any insight into what the composition of the lie derivative would look like.

For example say you take the lie derivative of some p-form $ \omega $ with $X$ and then $Y$. Using Cartan's formula it looks something like this

$$ \mathcal{L}_Y(\mathcal{L}_X\omega) = (i_Yd+di_Y)(i_Xd\omega+d(i_X\omega))=i_Yd(i_Xd\omega) +di_Yi_Xd\omega + di_Yd(i_X\omega)$$

I was wondering if there are some simplifications that can be made that could get it into a familiar form.