Analysis of Round-Pond
Richard Aldington 1892 (Portsmouth) – 1962
Water ruffled and speckled by galloping wind
Which puffs and spurts it into tiny pashing breaks
Dashed with lemon-yellow afternoon sunlight.
The shining of the sun upon the water
Is like a scattering of gold crocus-petals
In a long wavering irregular flight.
The water is cold to the eye
As the wind to the cheek.
In the budding chestnuts
Whose sticky buds glimmer and are half-burst open
The starlings make their clitter-clatter;
And the blackbirds in the grass
Are getting as fat as the pigeons.
Too-hoo, this is brave;
Even the cold wind is seeking a new mistress.
Scheme | XXABXA XX XXBXX XX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 101001011001 11011011011 111010011 01010101010 110100111010 00110001001 01011101 101101 001010 110110011110 0111110 0010001 110111010 11111 100111100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 575 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 2, 5, 2 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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