This is an analysis of the poem To The Leaf-Cricket that begins with:
Small twilight singer
Of dew and mist: thou ghost-gray, gossamer winger... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb ccddee X ddffff ddbbcc X ddaabb gghhii X jjaakX aXhhkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,1,6,6,1,6,6,1,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 011111110010 01110 11111111010 10110 10110101110 11110 11110101110 01110 110101010010 10010111001 1011001101 1 11110 01011111010 11110 010011111010 11110 110101001010 01010 01101001010 01010 11010001010 0101010101 0111110101 1 11110 11011111110 01010 01001111110 01110 10110101010 01010 01110101110 11110 11110101110 1111011101 1111010111 1 11010 11010001110 11110 010011101010 01110 11110011110 10110 11010111100 01010 11011101010 1111010111 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of, with, and, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, as, thou are repeated.
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