Analysis of When the Sea Levels Rise
Michael Drewes 1944 (Herzhausen)
When the sea levels rise,
we all shall drown.
New York will be a legend
and an underwater town.
When the glaciers melt,
go, sell your real estate,
before it is too late,
and the water reaches to your neck!
When the ice caps thaw,
then Greenland will be truly green.
When the ice caps thaw,
then Florida shall not be seen.
When the sea levels rise,
we all shall drown.
New York will be a legend
and an underwater town.
When the world heats up,
we all shall die,
and man will be a legend,
a forever vanquished dream.
Care for your lakes and rivers,
lest they be dirty slivers,
and the wildlife dies all out!
And all the landmass
will be an underwater mess.
When the sea levels rise,
we all shall drown.
New York will be a legend
and an underwater town.
When the sea levels rise,
we all shall drown.
New York will be a legend
and an underwater town.
| Scheme | ABCB xddx EfEf ABCB xxcx ggxxx ABCB ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101 1111 1111010 011001 10101 111101 011111 001010111 10111 11011101 10111 11001111 101101 1111 1111010 011001 10111 1111 0111010 0010101 1111010 1111010 001111 0101 1111001 101101 1111 1111010 011001 101101 1111 1111010 011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 887 |
| Words | 203 |
| Sentences | 15 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 33 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
I wanted to awaken consciousness about our environment as it is affected by climate change caused by human activity.
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