Analysis of The Smallest Drop
Your worries won't help anything
So, do your best to stop.
Enjoy what should make all hearts sing;
A bucket with a drop.
Your worries won't help you at all.
They aren't a magic potion.
Despite how many times you fall,
They're just drops in an ocean.
A drop inside a bucket will
Not be significant.
Nor will some drops in ocean kill
Important things you want!
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD EXEX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 1101110 111111 01111111 010101 11011111 11001010 01110111 1110110 01010101 110100 11110101 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 362 |
| Words | 77 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
Inconsequential Things
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Written on October 28, 2023
Submitted by stevec.24118 on October 28, 2023
Modified by stevec.24118 on October 28, 2023
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