Analysis of Butterfly.

Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)



In the fierce light the butterfly wings free —
So delicate, and yet so fibred to
Withstand the stress a giant would faint under.


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 001101011 110001111 01010101110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 136
Words 26
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 102
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Crawford

Robert Crawford FRSE FBA is a Scottish poet, scholar and critic. He is currently Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.  more…

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