This is an analysis of the poem The Pool By The Mill that begins with:

No one bathes in the pool,
The deep pool by the mill . . ....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aA bbccA bdaadA aeXeeaAad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,5,6,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001 011101 11001001 1011111 101101 1001001 0011101 0011101 101011 1011111 111011 0011111 0011101 1011001 1101011 1110010 101011010 110101 1111001 011101 01001001 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word mill at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Pool By The Mill;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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