Analysis of The Stinging Butterfly



No one lived more inside the moment,
No one left others more bent to his will,
No one remembered more for the things that he said,
No one more misunderstood while being so loved
—than Muhammad Ali

(Louisville Kentucky: July, 2020)


Scheme XXXXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 111101010 1111011111 110101101111 11100111011 101010 100101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 233
Words 45
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 1
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 91
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 29, 2022

Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on April 29, 2022

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