This is an analysis of the poem To The Grasshopper that begins with:
HAPPY art thou, darling insect,
Who, upon the trees' tall branches,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXXXcXXXab cccddXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111011 10101110 10101010 10101110 11001110 1110111 111010011 10100110 10101010 11101010 10101111 11111010 10111111 11101011 11101011 11101010 10101010 11101010 001101110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 334
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).
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