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

And I told the boy next door
What Jack Frost had done; and he... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbabXcddcdXbeebebbffXfbcggcgchiihihfjjfjfeaaeXeiffifXjffjfjchhcXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 66,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111 1111111 1111101 1111101 1110101 10111010 1111001 1110101 1011101 0010111 1011111 0011101 1110111 0110111 1111101 1111111 1110101 1110101 1110101 1010101 0010111 1111110 11111011 1111011 1111101 1011101 1111111 1110101 0110111 1011101 1111111 1110101 1111111 1111101 1011111 1011111 1110101 1010110 1111111 1111111 1111111 1111101 1111111 1111111 1110101 1111111 11101110 1010111 10111111 1101101 1010101 1110101 1101111 11111000 1111101 1110111 0010101 1010111 1011101 1011101 1011101 1011111 1011101 1011101 0011101 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2062
  • Average number of words per stanza: 420
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • 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; your, and are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

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