Analysis of The cricket sang,
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The cricket sang,
And set the sun,
And workmen finished, one by one,
Their seam the day upon.
The low grass loaded with the dew,
The twilight stood as strangers do
With hat in hand, polite and new,
To stay as if, or go.
A vastness, as a neighbor, came,--
A wisdom without face or name,
A peace, as hemispheres at home,--
And so the night became.
| Scheme | XAAX BBBX CCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101 0101 01010111 110101 01110101 0111101 11010101 111111 01010101 01001111 011111 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 351 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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