The Canadian poet Elaine George wrote the short poem Snowflake. Here it is:
Snowflake
A fragile winter butterfly
Flutters from the sky
So soft and yet her heart
Is cold and made of ice
But if I warm it
She will melt and die
The poem is composed of six verses and one stanza. The lack of punctuation is typical of many modern poems. The rhyme scheme is aabcda. In the poem Snowflake the author compares a snowflake to a winter butterfly fluttering from the sky. The author uses personification when she describes the heart of the snowflake. This poem expresses the fragility of life
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