Analysis of The Grasshopper
Conrad Potter Aiken 1889 (Savannah, Georgia) – 1973 (Savannah, Georgia)
Grasshopper
grasshopper
all day long
we hear your scraping
summer song
like
rusty
fiddles
in
the
grass
as through
the meadow
path
we pass
such funny legs
such funny feet
and how we wonder
what you eat
maybe a single blink of dew
sipped from a clover leaf would do
then high in air
once more you spring
to fall in grass again
and sing.
| Scheme | AAbcbdefghijklimnanjjocpc |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (68%) |
| Metre | 10 10 111 11110 101 1 10 10 0 0 1 11 01 1 11 1101 1101 01110 111 10010111 11010111 1101 1111 110101 01 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 342 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 25 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 11 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 269 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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