Analysis of Butterflies
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
Frail Travellers, deftly flickering over the flowers;
O living flowers against the heedless blue
Of summer days, what sends them dancing through
This fiery-blossom’d revel of the hours?
Theirs are the musing silences between
The enraptured crying of shrill birds that make
Heaven in the wood while summer dawns awake;
And theirs the faintest winds that hush the green.
And they are as my soul that wings its way
Out of the starlit dimness into morn:
And they are as my tremulous being—born
To know but this, the phantom glare of day.
Scheme | ABBA CDDC EFFE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11001010010010 1101001011 1101111101 11001101010 1101010001 00101011111 10001110101 0101011101 0111111111 110101011 01111100101 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 543 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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