Analysis of Caution: Butterflies

Gary Bégin


Ooopps!
Sorry.
More careful would I have been
Had only I known
You had trained
Monarchs present.

Scheme ABCDEF
Poetic Form
Metre 1 10 1101111 11011 111 110
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 91
Words 17
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 77
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on April 25, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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