Analysis of Finch & Frog
Wilhelm Busch 1832 (Wiedensahl) – 1908 (German Empire)
The finch trills in the apple tree
His: Tiriliree!
A frog climbs slowly up to him,
Up to the treetop's leafy rim
And puffs right up and croaks: "Hallooo,
Ol' chum: see, I c'n do it too!"
And as the bird his song of spring
So sweetly to the world doth sing,
The frog chimes in with sassy tones
And interjects his bassy drones.
The finch exclaims: "O Joy, hurray!
I'll fly away!"
And springs into the azure sky.
"Hah!" cries the frog, "Well so kin I!"
He makes a most ungainly bound
And splats onto the bare hard ground.
He's pancake flat, and that's no joke:
He's croaked his very final croak.
If someone climbs laboriously
Into the branches of a tree
And thinks himself a bird to be:
Wrong is he.
Scheme | AABBXX CCDD EEF FGGHH AAAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01100101 11 01110111 1101101 0111011 111111111 01011111 11010111 01101101 001111 01011101 1101 01010101 11011111 11010101 01100111 1110111 11110101 11101000 01010101 01010111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 683 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 3, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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