Analysis of Oh dear!

Vikas Nathan 1952 (INDIA)



Cute Butterfly flawn
Only to have settled down
On a thorn.


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 1101 1011101 101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 57
Words 11
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 47
Words per stanza (avg) 11

About this poem

Destiny of every creation is unforeseen, though we take everything granted for. We associat Butterflies and Flowers. It is quite so.. But I witnessed a beautiful butterfly flutter a long way and settle on a thorn instead of a beautiful flower closeby and wondered!!

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Submitted by vikas_g on June 17, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Vikas Nathan

Founder Principal VIDHYA VIKAS PUBLIC SCHOOL Palakkad Kerala INDIA 678731 more…

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