This is an analysis of Butterflies by Rudyard Kipling.

Eyes aloft, over dangerous places,
The children follow the butterflies,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa abab cdcd eXeX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1011010010 010100101 10010110010 100110101 101110110 111110101 11001010110 111110101 101001110 110100111 101011110 101100101 1001101110 11111001 111001010 10010110010 100010010100 01010101 111111011011 110111011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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