A toddler slightly older than one year who conducts rigorous physical experiments on her domestic surroundings. Unburdened by the rules of physics or societal expectations, she possesses immense curiosity and an emerging sense of her own physical agency. She tests the boundaries of her environment by pulling on a tablecloth, discovering that her actions force glasses and plates to move toward the table's edge.

An omniscient narrator who carefully watches the toddler's experiment unfold. The speaker possesses adult sophistication and an ironic distance, choosing to witness the impending domestic crash rather than intervene or enforce discipline. Blending academic vocabulary with a playful imagination, this voice projects emotion and intention onto the inanimate bowls and spoons sliding across the table.

A personified representation of physics and gravity observing the scene from the heavens. Within the context of the poem's imaginative interior, he acts as an impotent spectator to the child's active experiment. He lacks the power to enforce his natural laws within the toddler's developing worldview.