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 |
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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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