This is an analysis of the poem Lover's Gifts Xvi: She Dwelt Here By The Pool that begins with:
She dwelt here by the pool with its landing-stairs in ruins. Many
an evening she had watched the moon made dizzy by the shaking of...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdXaXXbXeffecdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010010101010 1101110111010100 01111100101010011 11001001101 0110110111111 0011111111101 10101000110010100 00101101111111 1011011100010 0101101011000101 1101101011011010 01001110110110010 10 100101101010100100 110111010101100 10110010010111010 01101011010010 101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1066
- Average number of words per stanza: 202
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, her, and, in, to, day are repeated.
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