Analysis of To A Cricket
William Cox Bennett 1820 (Greenwich,) – 1895 (Blackheath, London)
Voice of summer, keen and shrill,
Chirping round my winter fire,
Of thy song I never tire,
Weary others as they will,
For thy song with summer's filled -
Filled with sunshine, filled with June;
Firelight echo of that noon
Heard in fields when all is stilled
In the golden light of May,
Bringing scents of new-mown hay,
Bees, and birds, and flowers away,
Prithee, haunt my fireside still,
Voice of summer, keen and shrill.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110101 10111010 11111010 1010111 1111101 111111 110111 1011111 0010111 1011111 10101001 111101 1110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 417 |
| Words | 77 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 328 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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