Analysis of When Nothing is Better
James Vincient Johnson 1952 (Algoma WV)
When Nothing Is Better
You can be bad
And have everything
But when you fall
You fall twice as fast
As if you were good
And had nothing
Is it better to mix things?
And have something
But when you fall
You still fall half as fast
As if you were good
And had nothing
So, when you are good
With nothing
You always have something
A piece of mind…
| Scheme | x xaBcDA xaBcDA daa x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110110 1111 0110 1111 11111 11101 0110 1110111 0110 1111 111111 11101 0110 11111 110 11110 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 348 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
Having everything is not always better.
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