Caterpillar Kid

Caterpillar Kid is a short poem inquiring into the change a caterpillar goes through, from caterpillar kid to butterfly. It wonders what, if anything, the caterpillar remembers or has at its mental disposal to assist in its transformation.


    There are four stanzas. Each stanza has 15 syllables and emphasis should be placed on the 3rd and 11th syllable when reading. The rhyme scheme, per stanza, is the first two lines rhyme, then the next two lines rhyme (A, A, B, B). The first two stanzas address the little caterpillar and what it thinks about its future while the last two stanzas address the butterfly and what it thinks of its past. While the structure of 4 stanzas has been maintained as 4 chapter breaks, each stanza has had its lines split-apart in order to preserve the intent (the pacing) of each line, and thus each line is given its own page; there may be instances, however, where managing the evolution of the poem in your mind, some lines have been split into multiple pages (making it so a chapter is not necessarily equal to the count of lines of a stanza).