Analysis of Things of Clay
Gamaliel Bradford 1863 (Boston, Massachusetts) – 1932
Sing a little, play a little,
Laugh a little; for
Life is so extremely brittle,
Who would think of more?
Every long-laid project shatters,
Framed by things of clay:
He who knows that nothing matters
Smiles and slips away.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 10101010 10101 11101010 11111 100111010 11111 11111010 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 222 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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