Analysis of Ich lege mich zum Sterben nieder
Michael Drewes 1944 (Herzhausen)
Ich lege mich zum Sterben nieder,
die ganze Welt ist mir zuwider.
Ich bin müde, hab sie satt,
seit langem fresse ich kein Blatt.
Das bin ich, die Meckerziege,
wenn ich schon im Sterben liege.
| Scheme | AABBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain |
| Metre | 1111110 111111 1111111 111111 11111 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 192 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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