Analysis of Butterfly's Song



fear clasps your trembling heart
oppresses your fragile lungs
aching for some clearing air
and space for your frail songs

you rarefied and injured wonder
distress cracks in weakened cries
only vaguely the lament is heard
and hopeless are your tired sighs

please let me provide some rejoice
with hope’s uplifting words
amplify your weakened voice
transform it into a butterfly’s song
that brings more lofty sounds
to soothe the awkward wrong


Scheme XXXX XAXA BXBCXC
Poetic Form
Metre 1111001 0101101 1011101 011111 110001010 0110101 101000111 01011101 11101101 11101 101101 01101011 111101 110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 444
Words 72
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 122
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted by ludy_b on April 26, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ludy Bührs

The topics she writes about are very diverse, so are the poetry styles she applies. As a Dutch translator and poet, having lived in Cambodia's capital city Phnom Penh for 2.5 years, in 2008 she published "Op de ruïnes van een rijk" (On the Ruins of an Empire) ISBN 978-90-8834-483-1 with 60 poems based on her experiences there. In 2007 she received a Certificate of Accomplishment as one of The Best Poems and Poets of 2007 issued by poetry.com and the International Library of Poetry for her poem Choked Truth, her own translation of "Verstikte waarheid", one of the poems in the book. Born in 1956, she still works as an independent translator, translating from English into Dutch. more…

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