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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