This is an analysis of the poem The Cricket I that begins with:
First of the insect choir, in the spring
We hear his faint voice fluttering in the grass,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXbcddX X efef ffffddX X XbXb ggggddX X bhbh iihiddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,1,4,7,1,4,7,1,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10011100001 11011100001 0111010100 1101010111 10010100100 0110011001 11011100101 11010010101 1101010101 1111110101 110111 1 11010100111 0011000111 1100011111 11000010001 1011010101 01001011101 1011110101 1111010111 1101011101 1111011111 110111 1 1001010100 1101010111 1101010111 1011110101 1001110101 1100010111 1101111111 01011100101 0101110111 1101000111 110111 1 1111000101 1101110101 11010100101 0111110001 0101110101 11000010111 1101110101 01000100101 0101110111 1111110111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, of are repeated.
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- summary of The Cricket I;
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