Analysis of Mariposa
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Butterflies are white and blue
In this field we wander through.
Suffer me to take your hand.
Death comes in a day or two.
All the things we ever knew
Will be ashes in that hour,
Mark the transient butterfly,
How he hangs upon the flower.
Suffer me to take your hand.
Suffer me to cherish you
Till the dawn is in the sky.
Whether I be false or true,
Death comes in a day or two.
| Scheme | aaBA acdc BadaA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101 0111101 1011111 1100111 1011101 11100110 101010 11101010 1011111 1011101 1011001 1011111 1100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 373 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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