A fairly detailed yet brief explication of William Blake's "The Clod and the Pebble," focusing on meter, diction, imagery, and other devices of that sort.

A Big Lesson from Little Things William Blake's "The Clod and the Pebble" presents its readers with what seems to be, at first glance, a debate concerning love. Upon closer examination, however, a reader comes to understand that there is much more than a debate on love within this significant work. Blake allows the opposing philosophies of the Clod and the Pebble to become more apparent by the way he structures this poem in three …

…devoid of true love and will never achieve genuine happiness or gain total fulfillment from life. In choosing such small pieces of "being" as a Clod of Clay and a Pebble of the Brook, Blake reminds us how really small we all are in this infinite universe. More importantly, we are compelled to remember how we must accept our place in the world, however seemingly small, in order to become "complete" and happy human beings.