Analysis of Wallowing In Weltschmertz
When buried up to your neck in cow dung
It’s hard to retain your weltanschauung.
Harder still it is to avoid
The loss of everyday sang froid
When confronting a world so traumatized.
But letting yourself be schwarmerei-zed
Only smears your soul with blight
And ruins your gemutlichkeit.
So make tomorrow merriere
By getting off your derriere
To join the dance, a true believre
In the art of joie de vivre.
Scheme | AABB XXXB CCCC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 1101111011 1110111 10111101 01110111 101001110 11001111 1011111 01011 11011 110111 1101011 0011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 395 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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