Analysis of Hugo's "flower to butterfly"
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
Sweet, bide with me and let my love
Be an enduring tether;
Oh, wanton not from spot to spot,
But let us dwell together.
You've come each morn to sip the sweets
With which you found me dripping,
Yet never knew it was not dew
But tears that you were sipping.
You gambol over honey meads
Where siren bees are humming;
But mine the fate to watch and wait
For my beloved's coming.
The sunshine that delights you now
Shall fade to darkness gloomy;
You should not fear if, biding here,
You nestled closer to me.
So rest you, love, and be my love,
That my enraptured blooming
May fill your sight with tender light,
Your wings with sweet perfuming.
Or, if you will not bide with me
Upon this quiet heather,
Oh, give me wing, thou beauteous thing,
That we may soar together.
Scheme | ABXB XCXC XCXC XDXD ACXC DBCB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110111 1101010 11011111 1111010 11111101 1111110 11011111 1111010 1110101 1101110 11011101 11110 0110111 1111010 11111101 1101011 11110111 1101010 11111101 1111010 11111111 0111010 1111111 1111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 760 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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