Analysis of Bubble

Casey McDuffie 1971 (Missouri)



If I were a bubble,
I’d probably ask, why?
Blown up ephemeral
only to die.


Scheme ABAB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 110010 110011 110100 1011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 76
Words 17
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 55
Words per stanza (avg) 15

About this poem

Just popped in my head.

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Written on September 30, 2020

Submitted by cmichaelm on January 09, 2024

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