Analysis of To A Butterfly (2)

William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)



I'VE watched you now a full half-hour,
Self-poised upon that yellow flower;
And, little Butterfly! indeed
I know not if you sleep or feed.
How motionless!---not frozen seas
More motionless! and then
What joy awaits you, when the breeze
Hath found you out among the trees,
And calls you forth again !

This plot of orchard-ground is ours;
My trees they are, my Sister's flowers;
Here rest your wing when they are weary;
Here lodge as in a sanctuary!
Come often to us, fear no wrong;
Sit near us on the bough!
We'll talk of sunshine and of song,
And summer days, when we were young;
Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.


Scheme AABBCDCCD EEFFGHGXGH
Poetic Form
Metre 111101110 110111010 0101001 11111111 11001101 110001 11011101 11110101 011101 111101110 111111010 111111110 11100100 11011111 111101 1111011 01011101 11011011 110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 632
Words 120
Sentences 9
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 9, 10
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 247
Words per stanza (avg) 59
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 17, 2023

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