This is an analysis of the poem The Pool that begins with:
By the pool that I see in my dreams, dear love,
I have sat with you time and again;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acdcXadad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10111101111 111011101 1100101111 001001001 10100100111 111101001 110011001011 001001001 11110101111 01001001 1111101111 001111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, as, of, in, i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Pool;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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