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
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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Submitted by andylyle1 on August 25, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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