Analysis of Blue Danube



The Danube
is a murky gray
The Danube
is a brew
The Danube
isn't blue today
The Danube
isn't blue

The Danube
isn't only dead
The Danube
isn't host
The Danube
is a ghost instead
The Danube
is a ghost


Scheme AbAcAbAc AdAeAdAe
Poetic Form
Metre 010 10101 010 101 010 10101 010 101 010 10101 010 101 010 10101 010 101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 183
Words 40
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 10
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 78
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on January 13, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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