This is an analysis of Butterfly Laughter by Katherine Mansfield.
In the middle of our porridge plates
There was a blue butterfly painted…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXXXXXcXcabX
- Stanza lengths: 13,
- Metre: 001001101 110110110 1110111110 1011 101101101101 1000 1111 11110111010110 01101101 111011110 0101111011 100101001 11101101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 13
