The Frog Pool
James Martin Devaney 1890 – 1976
Week after week it shrank and shrank
as the fierce drought fiend drank and drank,
till on the bone-dry bed revealed
the mud peeled;
but now tonight is steamy-warm,
heavy with hint of thunderstorm.
And hark! hark! hoarse and harsh
the throaty croak of the frogs in the marsh:
"Wake! wake! awake! awake!
The drought break!"
but no, that chorus seems to me
more a primeval harmony.
The thunder booms, the floods flow
blended with deeper din below,
and every time the skies crash
the swamps flash!
and the whole place will be tonight
a pandemonium of delight.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 546 |
Words | 101 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
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