Analysis of A Nation’s Donald Duck
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
Donald Duck’s at it again
Strutting proudly up and down
His voice squeaks out with a quack
In a way to make some frown.
This cartoon clown is for real
Bedecked with his yellow gear
His speech miscarriages Justice
Quite mischievously, I fear.
For mike, he hires Mickey
As tattler of his tales
His followers are legion
All encouraged by his wails.
A Don he is to some folks
An animated figure
Etched in the hearts of many
Like Winnie and Like Tigger.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB CDXD XXCB |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1011101 1010101 1111101 0011111 1011111 0111101 11010010 1111 1111010 110111 1100110 1010111 0111111 110010 1001110 110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 456 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
Bedecked with a yellow orange bill, legs, and webbed feet, the ubiquitous Donald Duck, like Winnie-the-Pooh and Tigger too, is a fictional American cartoon puppet from the Walt Disney Company, depicted usually sporting a sailor shirt, cap, and a bow tie, and wearing trousers. As an anthropomorphic duck, Donald Duck is characterized as being easily provoked and as displaying an explosive temper, not unlike some prominent politicians and public officials who serve the general public; often quacking nonsensically in cacophonous polysyllabic diatribe to garner public attention at any cost with information portrayed as breaking news to some, and as sheer propaganda to others. This poem, “A Nation’s Donald Duck,” is written as an allegorical composition with the aim of presenting both a moral and a political message. Love him or dislike him, Donald Duck is always quacking with pizazz. This four-stanza 7-7-7-7 metered poem, with the second and fourth lines rhyming in each stanza, is composed to display how cartoon characters can be projected onto living characters, just as living characters can be easily projected onto fictional characters. Fiction often reveals the truth, even as the truth is often glossed over or masked by fiction. more »
Written on July 21, 2022
Submitted by karlcfolkes on July 21, 2022
Modified by karlcfolkes on July 23, 2022
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