Analysis of Grasshoppers
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
Grasshoppers go in many a thumming spring
And now to stalks of tasseled sow-grass cling,
That shakes and swees awhile, but still keeps straight;
While arching oxeye doubles with his weight.
Next on the cat-tail-grass with farther bound
He springs, that bends until they touch the ground.
| Scheme | AABBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain |
| Metre | 101010011 0111110111 1101011111 110110111 1101111101 1111011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 290 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 232 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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