This is an analysis of the poem The Silent Pool that begins with:
I have discovered finally to-day
This home that I have called my own... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dede aa X ffggbb eebbhh ddggii X jeje fefe fefe fifi X eekkee a glglXijijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,1,6,6,6,1,4,4,4,4,1,6,1,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101010001 01111111 010111 111101 1101010110 11010011 101101 011001 1101010101 11010101 110101 110100 1011010101 1011010111 1 1101011101 111111 110111 1111110101 1101011101 1111010111 11100110101 110001 011001 1011010111 1100011101 0001000101 1111110111 110101 110101 1101110011 1111011101 1111000101 1 111101 0101101101 110101 11001010101 110111 0101001100 010101 0101010010 110101 1100010001 110101 10110010001 110111 0111001111 111111 0101110001 1 1100011111 011111 0111001 01011101 11110010001 0101011100 1 11000101 01100111 111100111 11110111 11001101 11010101 11111101 11110101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; i, to, began, we, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, they are repeated.
The author used the same words i, at, look at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Silent Pool;
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