Analysis of The Microbe
Hilaire Belloc 1870 (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) – 1953
The Microbe is so very small
You cannot make him out at all,
But many sanguine people hope
To see him through a microscope.
His jointed tongue that lies beneath
A hundred curious rows of teeth;
His seven tufted tails with lots
Of lovely pink and purple spots,
On each of which a pattern stands,
Composed of forty separate bands;
His eyebrows of a tender green;
All these have never yet been seen--
But Scientists, who ought to know,
Assure us that they must be so....
Oh! let us never, never doubt
What nobody is sure about!
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111101 11011111 11010101 1111010 11011101 010100111 11010111 11010101 11110101 01110101 1110101 11110111 11001111 01111111 11110101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 517 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 410 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 97 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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