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

Butterfly, butterfly, where are you going?
Do you dine today with the regal rose... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXb cbcbXX dedeXb fbcbgg fhfhii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110111110 1110100101 1101001010 0010100101 010111010 110101010 1011101010 111001101 10110001110 1010101101 010111010 110101100 1011011110 101101111 111101010 111011101 11111110 011101010 11011101 00101101001 0101111110 100100101 0111001010 10100101010 11011101 0011100101 111100101 1101111101 110101100 1010010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is 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;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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