This is an analysis of The Butterfly by Clark Ashton Smith.
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O wonderful and wingèd flower,…
Browse poems by Clark Ashton Smith
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bcdb Xeec fdda gXhg aiif X jggj djjd XcXa dggd X djjd gddg hkkh cllc mnnm X dggd hffh a njjn Xibd XllkXcggc
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1 11001110 110000101 10010001 010001010 11001000 11010101 01100101 01000101 01110100 11011111 010100101 01010111 010010101 01010101 01000101 010100101 10110101 01010101 01010001 01000100 1 11011111 11010101 11110101 11010011 01010011 11110011 0110101 01000101 110101101 010100101 01011000 11010011 01110101 01010111 01110101 01010110 1 11011101 01110101 11010001 01110101 01010101 11110111 01010101 01110101 01010111 01010101 11010101 01110111 11010101 01110001 1110001 11010111 11010111 01110101 01010111 01010111 1 01010101 01010101 01110111 11011101 11010011 01110100 01010100 11011111 1 11110101 11010101 11010101 01011100 010000100 01011101 111101010 01010101 011110010 010001101 01010101 01010101 11111101 10110101 010100101 11111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 25
- Lines: 85
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, with
Anaphora
the, of
