Spring days like these



Spring days like these
Were made for katie ruellia –
Who is royalty among flowers –
Robed delicately in purple.

There – she arrived for the festivities
As the trumpeters blow their sennet.
Her crown is the leaves;
The butterflies – her subjects.
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Submitted by AmyMMosier on December 21, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXB AXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 254
Words 47
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

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