Analysis of The Forest Pool

Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)



LOST amid gloom and solitude,
A pool lies hidden in the wood,
A pool the autumn rain has made
Where flowers with their fair shadows played.

Bare as a beggar's board, the trees
Stand in the water to their knees;
The birds are mute, but far away
I hear a bloodhound's sullen bay.

Blue-eyed forget-me-nots that shook,
Kissed by a little laughing brook,
Kissed too by you with lips so red,
Float in the water drowned and dead.

And dead and drowned 'mid leaves that rot,
Our angel-eyed Forget-me-not,
The love of unforgotten years,
Floats corpse-like in a pool of tears


Scheme XXAA BBCC DDEE FFXX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 1011010 01110001 01010111 11011111 1101101 10010111 01111101 1101101 11011111 11010101 11111111 10010101 01011111 101010111 01111 11100111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 572
Words 103
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 110
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Mathilde Blind

Mathilde Blind, was a German-born British poet. Her work was praised by Matthew Arnold and French politician and historian Louis Blanc. more…

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