Analysis of When You've Done All You Can Do
When you've done all you can do
to nurse, preserve and spare
a fruitless love affair it is time to construe
that issue as unfair and give-up all repair
When you've done all you can do
to build, revamp and hone
a perfect muscle tone it is time to construe
that mission as a groan and seek a comfort zone
When you've done all you can do
to solve, restore and mend
a conflict with a friend
it is time to construe
that trouble as dead-end and craft a novel bend
When you've done all you can do
to tweak, better and right
a shady fly-by-night it is time to construe
that business as a blight and switch-off every light
Scheme | AbabAcacAddadAeae |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 110101 010101111101 110101011101 1111111 110101 001101111101 110101010101 1111111 110101 010101 111101 110111010101 1111111 111001 010111111101 1101010111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 481 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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