Analysis of Black Butterfly

Michael Charles Sinclair

Free verse
Like a caterpillar
Metamorphoses into a butterfly
Astounds
Into the daylight

Takes flight
Flutters and alights on rose petals
So light
Resounds in delight

Feeling the warmth of sunlight
Radiant and bright
Until the darkness of the night
Dancing through life

With little worries of wrong or right
If only we had embraced the tree of life
If only Adam did not love his wife
More than he loved the Creator of all life

From boyhood
I epiphany into manhood
So ready, so ripe
Mind alert, body right

Future bright
Met characters flawed
Traps ignored
Silly games left me bored

Inconsequential were never decisions of youth
Never befuddled by choices of false or truth
Caterpillar no more
Fly Black Butterfly

Soar
His Woman Adorned
Roar Black Man Roar
The Lion Endures

Roar Some More
New Man Is Born, Heaven Ensured
Encore, Roar
Round of Applause

Scheme XAXB BXBB BBBC BCCC DDXB BXEE FFGA GXGX GXGX
Poetic Form
Metre 10100 101010 01 0101 11 10011110 11 1001 100111 10001 01010101 1011 110101111 11011010111 1101011111 11110010111 11 10100011 11011 101101 101 11001 101 101111 001001001011 100101101111 10011 1110 1 11001 1111 01001 111 11111001 11 1101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 846
Words 154
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 36
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 77
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Written on October 08, 2021

Submitted by i12love on November 19, 2022

Modified by i12love on January 21, 2023

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