Analysis of Wrought Iron Bridge



The dance of life...so beautiful
Sweet memories we make
In morning unabandoned
Then we waltz at the end of day

I danced on legs much stronger once
Not a tremble or a quiver
high up on the wrought iron bridge
above the rushing river

Come down, you'll kill yourself she cried
But I did not heed her warning
I' was never so alive
as on that youthful summer morning

And we still dance...


Scheme XXAA XBXB ACXC X
Poetic Form
Metre 0111100 110011 0101 11110111 11111101 10101010 11101101 0101010 11110111 11111010 1110101 111101010 0111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 371
Words 74
Sentences 2
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 76
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Mark Orr

Photographer, Genealogist, Historian and aspiring poet living in the fabled county of "Raintree" in Indiana. more…

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