Analysis of The cricket’s jump
Román Ortega-Cowan 1935 (Habana)
A light brown cricket at play on green grass
He seemed like a morsel to birds on tall tree
A little brown morsel well served on the grass
To birds on the tree, they just could not pass.
With bees flying round’ in the gentle breeze
A hungry black crow descends from the tree
So close to the cricket he lands on the grass
That frantic heartbeats from the cricket flee
Now facing each other on the lush green grass
Squirrels looked on, tree leaves dropped as well
A jump could have saved brown cricket at play
Skip all the drama … Just food for black bird.
Scheme | ABAA XBAB AXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 0111011111 11101011111 01011011101 1110111111 1110100101 0101101101 11101011101 110110101 11011010111 101111111 0111111011 1101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 546 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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