This is an analysis of the poem Butterflies that begins with:
O child of Joy! What idle life is thine!
Thou, in these meadows, while thy skies are blue,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXb cdcXcd eaeaea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 1011111111 1111110111 1011011101 1111000010 0101111101 1101110111 1011101110 1001110111 1001111100 1011011101 1111011111 1101010111 1101011111 1111010101 0111011101 1101110100 0111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, thy, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o 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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