Analysis of Butterfly
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
Butterfly, the wind blows sea-ward,
strong beyond the garden-wall!
Butterfly, why do you settle on my
shoe, and sip the dirt on my shoe,
Lifting your veined wings, lifting them?
big white butterfly!
Already it is October, and the wind
blows strong to the sea
from the hills where snow must have
fallen, the wind is polished with
snow.
Here in the garden, with red
geraniums, it is warm, it is warm
but the wind blows strong to sea-ward,
white butterfly, content on my shoe!
Will you go, will you go from my warm
house?
Will you climb on your big soft wings,
black-dotted,
as up an invisible rainbow, an arch
till the wind slides you sheer from the
arch-crest
and in a strange level fluttering you go
out to sea-ward, white speck!
Scheme | AXBCXB XXXXDXEAC EXXXXXXDX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001111 1010101 101111011 10101111 10111101 1110 01011010001 11101 1011111 10011101 1 1001011 0100111111 10111111 11010111 111111111 1 11111111 110 1110100111 10111110 11 00011010011 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 795 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 189 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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