This is an analysis of the poem The Bee And The Butterfly that begins with:

UPON a garden's perfum'd bed
With various gaudy colours spread, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc dXeeaacc bbffccdXXebbggXX aXccggccXXcceebbgghhcXXXiijj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,16,28,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010011 010010101 01010001 01011101 10010101 01010111 010100010 01010101 01000101 01010101 010011101 10110111 11010101 11010101 101011101 001101011 110010101 10011101 11010101 10010101 100001010 01010101 11001010100 10111101 00110101 01010101 00110101 100101001 10110111 111101010 01010101 01010110 101110101 01110011 011101001 11001101 11011101 011101001 11111101 01010101 01110101 11010111 01011111 11111111 11110101 01010101 010100101 110010101 01110111 01010101 11010111 01110100 10110101 11100111 11110101 11110101 101010101 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 522
  • Average number of words per stanza: 88
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of The Bee And The Butterfly;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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