This is an analysis of the poem The Butterfly that begins with:
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O wonderful and wingèd flower,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdb Xeec fdda gXhg aiif X jggj djjd XcXa dggd X djjd gddg hkkh cllc mnnm X dggd hffh a njjn Xibd XllkXcggc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 11001110 110000101 10010001 010001010 11001000 11010101 01100101 01000101 01110100 11011111 010100101 01010111 010010101 01010101 01000101 010100101 10110101 01010101 01010001 01000100 1 11011111 11010101 11110101 11010011 01010011 11110011 0110101 01000101 110101101 010100101 01011000 11010011 01110101 01010111 01110101 01010110 1 11011101 01110101 11010001 01110101 01010101 11110111 01010101 01110101 01010111 01010101 11010101 01110111 11010101 01110001 1110001 11010111 11010111 01110101 01010111 01010111 1 01010101 01010101 01110111 11011101 11010011 01110100 01010100 11011111 1 11110101 11010101 11010101 01011100 010000100 01011101 111101010 01010101 011110010 010001101 01010101 01010101 11111101 10110101 010100101 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Butterfly;
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