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The phrase "The sky is falling!" features prominently in the story, and has passed into the English language as a common idiom indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent. Similar stories go back more than 25 centuries [1] and "Henny Penny" continues to be referred to in a variety of media.
A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other. An example of the ABAB rhyming scheme, from "To Anthea, who may Command him Anything", by Robert Herrick:
Sky Is Falling, a 2002 album by Grainger; The Sky Is Falling, a 1980 album by Randy Stonehill; The Sky Is Falling and I Want My Mommy, a 1991 album by Nomeansno with Jello Biafra "The Sky Is Falling", a 2007 song on Conviction, by Aiden "The Sky Is Falling", a 1997 song on Marigold Sky, by Hall & Oates
Anthony Bourdain had purchased artwork titled, "The sky is falling, I am learning to live with it," about a week before he committed suicide.
End rhyme (aka tail rhyme): a rhyme occurring in the terminating word or syllable of one line in a poem with that of another line, as opposed to internal rhyme. End-stopping line; Enjambment: incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation.
The title of The Sky is Falling comes from a child's misinterpretation of the Blitz. Early in the novel, Norah and Gavin are listening to stories with other evacuees. The group hears the story of The Sky is Falling (Chicken Little), about a chicken who believed the sky was falling. A young evacuee states that is what was happening in England.
The song dates back to Simon's days in England in 1965; it follows a hopeless poet, with "manuscripts of unpublished rhyme", unsure of his achievements in life. [3] The lyrics recall the transition from fall to winter, as suggested by the repetition of the final chorus of the song: I look around, leaves are brown And the sky is a hazy shade of ...
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