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
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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Submitted by Fantasma on May 03, 2021

Modified on April 03, 2023

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