Butterflies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH HIJI| Eyes aloft over dangerous places | A |
| The children follow the butterflies | B |
| And in the sweat of their upturned faces | A |
| Slash with a net at the empty skies | B |
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| So it goes they fall amid brambles | C |
| And sting their toes on the nettle tops | D |
| Till after a thousand scratches and scrambles | C |
| They wipe their brows and the hunting stops | D |
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| Then to quiet them comes their father | E |
| And stills the riot of pain and grief | F |
| Saying quot Little ones go and gather | E |
| Out of my garden a cabbage leaf | F |
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| quot You will find on it whorls and clots of | G |
| Dull grey eggs that properly fed | H |
| Turn by way of the worm to lots of | G |
| Glorious butterflies raised from the dead quot | H |
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| quot Heaven is beautiful Earth is ugly quot | H |
| The three dimensioned preacher saith | I |
| So we must not look where the snail and the slug lie | J |
| For Psyche's birth And that is our death | I |
Rudyard Kipling
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