Analysis of By The Still Water's Edge
Alan S Jeeves 1951 (Lancashire)
I gazed down from the water's side
To see a silver gleam
And standing staring looked and tried
To see beyond the stream.
The clearest water sparkling, pure,
Below me stilled and calm;
Its cooling, soothing, fooling lure,
Seductive in its charm.
I saw a young man peering on
With eyes that conquered all.
But in a moment, he was gone ~
Uncanny, I recall.
Beneath the surface he was there,
A soul of twenty-four,
Then vanished in the swell somewhere
And left me by the shore.
Again, he came when it was staid
And braved another glance.
Yet, had I his acquaintance made
Some long by-go, by chance?
He spoke and told me in a rhyme
He yearned that he was me;
Though musing swept me back in time ~
I longed that I was he.
Scheme | ABABCXCX XDXDEFEF GHGHIJIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 110101 01010101 110101 01010101 011101 11010101 010011 11011101 111101 10010111 01011 01010111 011101 1100011 011101 01111111 010101 11110101 111111 11011001 111111 11011101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 718 |
Words | 152 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted by AlanSJeeves on July 04, 2021
Modified by AlanSJeeves on April 06, 2022
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