The Leap Of The Dog
An urban sprawl in a valley
Where one could sense, as a youth,
A presence alongside a river referred
Too as ‘The Roe’ - its name based upon
An Irish wolfhound leaping
Across the latter’s flow.
Not far from where Saint Colm Cille
Addressed a convention on the top of
A hill known as Drumceat
But, then, the flow from the Sperrins
Was referred too as An Rua .
A market town where, centuries later,
A lady copied an air from a fiddle she
Heard.To be called ‘The Limavady Air’-
An air destined to become the soul
Of the immortal ballad- ‘Danny Boy’.
There, also, ‘Peg Of Limavady’ entered
The world of literature and where one
Experienced a sense of mysticism while
Strolling across the fields of rhythm and
Rhyme those long, long years ago.
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Submitted on February 21, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXBXXC AXBXX XAXXXBXXXC |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 747 |
Words | 135 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 10 |
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