Analysis of Just a Drop
B.C. Byron 1982 (Idaho)
A little drop of sunlight
In a lake of lonely night,
A little drop of comfort
To a mind that's wound up tight,
A little drop of water
In a throat that's feeling dry,
A little dripping teardrop
From an eye that needs a cry.
A drop into your bucket,
A drop into the sea,
A drop lost in the ocean,
Just tiny little me.
It may be all that I can do,
But I will be a drop for you.
| Scheme | AABACDEDFGHGII |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010111 0011101 0101110 1011111 0101110 0011101 010101 1111101 0101110 010101 0110010 110101 11111111 11110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 374 |
| Words | 90 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 282 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 81 |
About this poem
Maybe we make more of a difference than we realize.
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Written on March 10, 2022
Submitted by BCByron on June 09, 2022
Modified on April 11, 2023
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