Analysis of The Butterfly
Joseph Skipsey 1832 (Northumberland) – 1903 (Gateshead)
The butterfly from flower to flower
The urchin chas’d; and, when at last
He caught it in my lady’s bower,
He cried, “Ha, ha!” and held it fast.
Awhile he laugh’d, but soon he wept,
When looking at the prize he’d caught
He found he had to ruin swept
The very glory he had sought
| Scheme | ABAB CXCX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 010110110 01010111 11101110 11110111 01111111 11010111 11111101 01010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 315 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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