Analysis of On the Grasshopper and Cricket
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
The poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
That is the Grasshopper's--he takes the lead
In summer luxury,--he has never done
With his delights; for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills
The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever,
And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,
The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills.
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Metre | 0100111101 1101111011 0101010111 1111010111 11011101 01010011101 11011110111 1111011101 01001111010 1011010101 1101010111 01010101010 0111010011 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 602 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 477 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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