Analysis of So She Eats Butterflies
So she eats the butterflies
and I grovel in the ground
with the worms
I am infatuated with this truth
Do you not know you are a butterfly
glistening in the breeze of the midnight sky?
Your wings span the void of timelessness
and colors the darkness beyond
flying far above he whom is mud stuck
naming fears to keep the insanity within reason.
Do you not know you are the butterfly?
I have known this all along...
You have the multifaceted eyes
which captures every essence of truth
and pens each one unique as a flower
scribbled upon grateful pages
So butterfly eat butterfly,
to put a heart at rest
but try to keep soaring above
the dirtied street lampposts
use the wind to your advantage..
and I will watch from below
and revel in it's penned grace.
Scheme | AXXBCC AXXXCX ABXX CXXXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 0110001 101 110100111 111111010 1000011011 1110111 01001001 1010111111 10111001000110 111111010 1111101 11001001 1101001011 0111011010 10011010 110110 110111 11111001 0111 10111010 0111101 0100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 730 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 4, 7 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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