The overweighting of the stressed syllables strengthens the humour of the lines. Busch also uses dactyls, where one accented syllable is followed by two unaccented syllables, as in his "Plisch und Plum", where they underline the pedantic and solemn words with which teacher Bokelmann educates his pupils. They create tension in the Sourdough chapter from "Adventures of a Bachelor", through the alternation of trochees and dactyls. Busch often synchronizes format and content in his poems, as in "Fips the Monkey", where he uses the epic hexameter in a speech about wisdom.