The Butterfly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BAAACBCB A DAEEFDFD| VIATOR loquitur | A |
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| 'Royal in purple and gold and red | B |
| Free and unknowing sorrow | A |
| Blithely and lithely to and fro | A |
| With flowers for thy choosing still a blow | A |
| Flaunt through the idle noon | C |
| But the day is short and the summer sped | B |
| And alas for the end of joy so soon | C |
| The days are short and the rose is dead | B |
| And thou wilt be dying to morrow ' | - |
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| BUTTERFLY loquitur | A |
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| 'Sunshine and blossoms are on my way | D |
| What is thy talk of sorrow | A |
| Blithe on the wing with the flowers for rest | E |
| Hither and thither as likes me best | E |
| Oh the joy of the while | F |
| Minutes are many to bask and to play | D |
| The earth is glad and the blue skies smile | F |
| Minutes are many and joy is to day | D |
| Dying is far till to morrow ' | - |
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