Analysis of What Has Happened?
Bertolt Brecht 1898 (Augsburg) – 1956 (East Berlin)
The industrialist is having his aeroplane serviced.
The priest is wondering what he said in his sermon eight weeks ago
about tithes.
The generals are putting on civvies and looking like bank clerks.
Public officials are getting friendly.
The policeman points out the way to the man in the cloth cap.
The landlord comes to see whether the water supply is working.
The journalists write the word People with capital letters.
The singers sing at the opera for nothing.
Ships' captains check the food in the crew's galley,
Car owners get in beside their chauffeurs.
Doctors sue the insurance companies.
Scholars show their discoveries and hide their decorations.
Farmers deliver potatoes to the barracks.
The revolution has won its first battle:
That's what has happened.
Scheme | ABCCDEFCFDCCCCGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0010001101110 01110011101101101 011 010011011010111 1001011010 001011011010011 011111001001110 010010110110010 01011010110 11010100110 1101001101 1010010100 10110100011010 100100101010 0010111110 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 761 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 625 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 125 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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