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
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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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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