This is an analysis of the poem The Grasshopper that begins with:
The grasshopper, that sang its sleepy song
All summer long,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXXXbbccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110110101 1101 0101110101 1011011011 0111 1001001010 0101010101 1111 0101110101 0100011101 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Grasshopper;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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