Analysis of Impending Doom
Wilhelm Busch 1832 (Wiedensahl) – 1908 (German Empire)
Es machen sich die Fliegen
Ein luftig Tanzvergnügen.
Der Frosch, der denkt: Nur munter!
Ihr kommt schon noch herunter!
Up high, the flies are playing,
And frolicking, and swaying.
The frog thinks: Dance! I know
You'll end up here below.
Scheme | AABB CCAX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 110111 11011 1111110 11111 1101110 0100010 011111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 245 |
Words | 42 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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