The dawn a day decrees...
I see it before my eyes;
From a glow behind the trees,
I see the sun arise...
But I also see it tread
Out across the lake,
And there upon that stead,
A blazing path doth make...
It burns the water, it cannot be!
But there's the fire, in front of me! — John Riedell
(Two four-line stanzas of iambic trimeter with few anapestic feet mixed in, an amphibrach and one lone syllable [a slight pause before it will help keep a spoken flow]. These are followed by a couplet in iambic tetrameter. See the breakdown below:)
The dawn
| a day | decrees...
I see it | before | my eyes;
From a glow | behind | the trees,
I see | the sun | arise.
But I al |
so see | it tread
Out | across | the lake,
And there | upon | that stead,
A bla | zing path | doth make...
It burns |
the water, | it can | not be!
But there's | the fire, | in front | of me!
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