This is an analysis of the poem Lavender Pond that begins with:

Never a swallow wets his wing
In Lavender Pond from Spring to Spring;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddd eeffffccggg hhhhggffhhaaii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010101 01001001001 10010111 10110101 10011111 10100101 1001010111 100101111 101111010 1100101110 0100111010 1010100111 011111101 101110111 110110101 1010111110 111011010 10110111 10110111 010010101 110110111 010011101 111100111 0010100101 11100101 111100101 11101101 10101101 10011101 11100101 1010110101 0010100101 10111001110 1011101010 100111110 0100111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 463
  • Average number of words per stanza: 86
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; never, and, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words never, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines there is repeated).

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  • summary of Lavender Pond;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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