Analysis of Waterfall
Andy Lyle 1951 (Londonderry)
Across the bridge and through the Glen
Past Mill on right, wheel stopped again
Trees are leaning on the slope
That they stay up that is my hope
Till I am past and on my way
Past bracken brown and grass like hay
There in the distance, silver and tall
Musically cascading the waterfall
I sit on rock and watch flow
That carved its way eons ago
And watered foliage in the Glen
Powered Mill wheel, stopped again
Through some unseen broken part
Deep in the Mills great grinding heart
Still onward flows the falls emission
Tween banks of green with people fishing
Till estuary at last gives way
To open sea where fish can play
And wind the moisture can lift high
To form great rain clouds in the sky
To feed the spring, that feeds the tall
Musically cascading waterfall
Scheme | A A B B C C D D E E A A F F X X C C G G D D |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101 11111101 1110101 11111111 11110111 11010111 100101001 100010010 1111011 11111001 01010001 1011101 1101101 10011101 110101010 111111010 11001111 11011111 01010111 11111001 11011101 10001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 742 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 22 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 28 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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