This is an analysis of the poem Butterfly that begins with:
Butterfly, the wind blows sea-ward,
strong beyond the garden-wall!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdX abXXcadac dXXaXXXcX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,9,9,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101111 1010101 1011111011 11101111 101101100 11101 01000010101 11001 0011111 10010100 1 1001001 0100001001 10111011 110110111 011011011 1 01111111 110 11101001111 10111100 11 10011010011 101111 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; warm is repeated.
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