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;
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- idea of the verse;
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