This is an analysis of the poem Butterflies that begins with:
Frail Travellers, deftly flickering over the flowers;
O living flowers against the heedless blue ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc ecce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001010010010 11010010101 0101110101 010010100010 1101010001 00101001111 10001110101 1101011101 1111111101 1001010001 11111100101 0110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Butterflies;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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