This is an analysis of the poem Dead-Maid's-Pool that begins with:
Oh water, water-water deep and still,
In this hollow of the hill,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.
- Rhyme scheme: aabcbcddac EaXaffghheheg EhigihXhgghjXh aakghhkhhehhllhmg ee aaXgnNXjjkEeEndXggjjjnNdgkhdhdgfgfgbhbh EOEonn ebbbb geje eehhbb bbbbbXhbgfhhhjgf edlcphhhldpbhbchbehhh EbEbeeEOEooEeOecEcjhjhkjjkaao mmoihhXigod bXodghooj Xjdndhekkeo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,13,14,17,2,39,6,5,4,6,16,21,29,11,9,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010111 0010001 11011010111 1011101 111101 11101 1011 001101 111111 110101 1111 101001 11110 1111 110101 110101 10110 100101 001101 111101 001111 011001 10110 1111 111110 010101 01010100110 100101 110101 101100111100 11110101 11010101 1101010101 0100010111 1101011101 1101011001 1100010101 110111 110101 111111 1011011110 101101 011111 01001000101 1001111101 1101010001 100101 0101011111 010101 011101 1011111001 0111010110101 11110100 0101110011111 111101 10011 101010111 0010001 1010111 101010 1111101 11111111 011110 011101 010100010101 111101 0111 11111 0111 101 11111 1110101 010100110 01101110 101001 011111 11111 1111101 11111111 10101 101001 1011101 1011101 1010111 0011111 1010111 10101001 1010101 1000101 1010001 11011 1111111 01111101 1011101 011111 1111 1010010 1111 11010 11111111 111101011 11101111 101111 11011 110011 111011 11111 1001011 11101 1101 1111 0101111 111011 11101 10100101 10110101 11 01011 10101 011 11011 0010 11 101001 111111 1111001 111110 1110 10110 11111 1101 10101001 101101 100 00101 0111 10101 11011 10101 11011 0111 0111 11111 111 11101 10101 10101 10101 10101 101101 1001 1011 11011 1111 11111 1111 1111 11010111 1110111 1111 1010010 1111 11110 1010 11 11 1010010 1101 10101 11 110 111 111 111 1011 01101 01101 0111 1101 111 111 11011110 101010 01110 1011101110 1011101110 1001000101 100101 10111101010 11010 11111101010 10111110 01111 11101 010110 0101010 010101 1010101 1010101 10101010 101010 001101 1011101 1110101 1010101 010101 111101 1111111 11111111 0111001001 11011101 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 357
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 227
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; water, it, and, to, thy, as, fair, thro', in, ash, tree, have, hold, i, know are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thro', 'tis, and, for, the, ash, have, that, all, it, curse, any, i are repeated.
The author used the same words ash, thy at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thin is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Dead-Maid's-Pool;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
Pay attention: the program cannot take into account all the numerous nuances of poetic technique while analyzing. We make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability and suitability with respect to the information.
