Analysis of NIAGARA FALLS (Poem #25)



The roar and the thunder are so loud I hold my ears.
But the beauty, the mystery, they are such a sight to see.

It's might, it's powerful, the thunder does roar.
I wonder what that little boat down there has in store?

Splashing and spraying way high up in the air,
Roaring and rumbling as the water flows over there.

The foam and the bubbles, the mist in the sky.
Oh, what a scary and wild and very wet ride.

There's the little boat, it made it right under
The falls, the water and all of the thunder.

The people are all laughing and happy you see
For they made it under the falls and soon will join me.

(c) Copyright by Jean E. Gorney
 


Scheme XA BB CC XX DD AA A
Poetic Form
Metre 0100101111111 101001001110111 11110001011 1101110111101 10010111001 10010010101101 01001001001 110100101011 10101111110 01010011010 010111001011 1111100101111 11011110 1
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 626
Words 127
Sentences 11
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 69
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on December 09, 2016

Modified on April 22, 2023

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Jean Gorney

I wrote a poem for my daughter and new son-in-law and read it at their wedding reception in 1997. People have been encouraging me ever since. I try to write up-beat and happy poetry. My poetry has been in many anthologies, newspapers, church bulletins,etc. I won a small contest once. I self-published some small(4x5)books with about 16 poems in each that can be used as greeting cards. I include an envelope for mailing. Check them out on my FB page under Jean Magill Gorney. more…

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