This is an analysis of the poem The Butterfly that begins with:
SISTER.
Do, my dearest brother John,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abb acd adc aeefaafg aghiiih ajjk abbklljccjggimmiXaccbhhb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,8,7,4,24,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 1110101 1110101 10 111111 11110101 10 11111101 111111 10 01111101 10111111 011111 110111010 100111010 111101 01011101 10 11010110 111111 11110101 01010111 11001101 011101 10 11111101 11011101 111001 10 01011101 01010101 110101 11011101 11010100 110001 11010101 01010111 111011 01010001 11101101 110101 11000101 11111001 010101 10 11010101 11011111 111101 11110001 00111011 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.
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