This is an analysis of the poem To A Butterfly Resting Upon A Skull that begins with:
Creature of air and light,
Emblem of that which cannot die,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbX cdcdbbd efefddf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111 10011101 111111 0101110101 111101 010101 1101010100 011101 1101110111 001111 1111010111 110001 011111 1111010101 110101 1001011101 111101 1111010101 100111 101101 11110001101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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