Analysis of The Wood Pool
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
Here is a voice that soundeth low and far
And lyricvoice of wind among the pines,
Where the untroubled, glimmering waters are,
And sunlight seldom shines.
Elusive shadows linger shyly here,
And wood-flowers blow, like pale, sweet spirit-bloom,
And white, slim birches whisper, mirrored clear
In the pool's lucent gloom.
Here Pan might pipe, or wandering dryad kneel
To view her loveliness beside the brim,
Or laughing wood-nymphs from the byways steal
To dance around its rim.
'Tis such a witching spot as might beseem
A seeker for young friendship's trysting place,
Or lover yielding to the immortal dream
Of one beloved face.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE CFXF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 110111101 0101110101 10010100101 01101 010110101 01101111101 011110101 001101 1111110011 11010101 110111011 110111 110101111 01011111 11010100101 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 626 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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