BUTTERFLY

The Butterfly is a 6-line syllable count structure, with count 8-8-4-4-8-8 and rhyme scheme  a-a-b-b-c-c.  The message should be a flitting thought expressed in one sentence.  Here's an example from Mary Harper Sowell's little collection called  Poetry Patterns A-Z.   Mary (now deceased) was a teacher of the blind in Arkansas.

Too Late the Rose

When Granny Jenkins was alive,
alone she managed to survive
the lonely years
with hidden tears,   
but when she died, the people came
to bring bouquets and praise her name.

Take care not to confuse the above butterfly format above with that of the butterfly cinquain.  They are two separate poetry forms.



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