Of The Boy And Butterfly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DEFGG H IIJJKK KKLLHH| Behold how eager this our little boy | A |
| Is for a butterfly as if all joy | A |
| All profits honours yea and lasting pleasures | B |
| Were wrapped up in her or the richest treasures | B |
| Found in her would be bundled up together | C |
| When all her all is lighter than a feather | C |
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| He halloos runs and cries out 'Here boys here ' | - |
| Nor doth he brambles or the nettles fear | D |
| He stumbles at the molehills up he gets | E |
| And runs again as one bereft of wits | F |
| And all his labour and his large outcry | G |
| Is only for a silly butterfly | G |
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| Comparison | H |
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| This little boy an emblem is of those | I |
| Whose hearts are wholly at the world's dispose | I |
| The butterfly doth represent to me | J |
| The world's best things at best but fading be | J |
| All are but painted nothings and false joys | K |
| Like this poor butterfly to these our boys | K |
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| His running through nettles thorns and briers | K |
| To gratify his boyish fond desires | K |
| His tumbling over molehills to attain | L |
| His end namely his butterfly to gain | L |
| Doth plainly show what hazards some men run | H |
| To get what will be lost as soon as won | H |
John Bunyan
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