Analysis of The Grasshopper



O THOU that swing'st upon the waving hair
   Of some well-filled oaten beard,
Drunk every night with a delicious tear
   Dropt thee from heaven, where thou wert rear'd!

The joys of earth and air are thine entire,
   That with thy feet and wings dost hop and fly;
And when thy poppy works, thou dost retire
   To thy carved acorn-bed to lie.

Up with the day, the Sun thou welcom'st then,
   Sport'st in the gilt plaits of his beams,
And all these merry days mak'st merry men,
   Thyself, and melancholy streams.


Scheme ABAB XCXC DEDE
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11111010101 111111 11001100101 111101111 01110111010 1111011101 0111011101 11110111 110101111 110011111 01110111101 101001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 518
Words 92
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 128
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 26, 2023

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Richard Lovelace

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