This is an analysis of the poem The Pool that begins with:
COME with me, follow me, swift as a moth,
Ere the wood-doves waken.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbbcca dedeXf egfef fhhgccXiii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,5,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011101 101110 101111111 101010 1011 10101001001 10101010101 101001 10011101 100100101 010110101 10111 101110110 110100101 11111110111 11101 001110 101111111 001110 1110100111 1111 1101111001 11001001001 11111101 010011101 010101101 1111110 1011101001 110111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, and, sweet are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, i, of are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Pool;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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