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 |
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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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