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

Thine emulous fond flowers are dead, too,
And the daft sun-assaulter, he ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcBbBdaeaefdfggfhcbhbcdbdijjibkkchhchllmmbcbdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 47,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100110111 10111001 1101110111 1101 100101 1101 1011011001 0110110001 01111101010 100101 01010 111111 010100101 010100 010101 11011101 1011100101 111011 0101111101 111111 111111 1111110010011 111111010001 011101 1101 110101 011111000101 11011111 1101100100 1110100101 110101 11010011 0111 0100010101 1001010101 011101 101101001 111101 1111 1001111 11110101 1011011101 11111001 111111 10111 11000101 1001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1568
  • Average number of words per stanza: 293
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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