Analysis of Butterflies

Jose Asuncion Silva 1865 (Bogotá) – 1896 (Bogotá)



In a fragile vase
In your chamber are
Preserved butterflies
That when touched by
A brilliant sun ray
Turn to mother-of-pearl,
Pieces of iridescent
Evening sky
Or opaline glimmer
Of velvety wings;
There the azure
Daughters of the air,
Mercurial wings
Now fixed forever,
Wings that traversed
Unexplored valleys
That like the desires
Of your enamored soul
Seem, at dawn,
To be revived
When you unlatch
Your windows and sun
Explodes in your eyes
And in crystalline panes.


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Poetic Form
Metre 00101 01101 0110 1111 01011 111011 101010 101 11010 11001 1010 10101 01001 11010 1110 0110 110010 110101 111 1101 111 11001 01011 00101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 452
Words 80
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 24
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 381
Words per stanza (avg) 78
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Jose Asuncion Silva

José Asunción Silva was a Colombian poet. more…

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