Analysis of The pond.



Powder blue and yellow bodied -chasers dance like neon lights.
Flying, skimming, back and forth, shiny iridescent, bright.
One lands brushing, dipping, gliding over water cool.
Hovering with helicopter wings, on the olive algae pool.
Turquoise coloured Damselflies glow in verdant green grass.
Tiny bodies elongated,  menacing hornet's noise , heard to pass.
Thirsty bees drink at edge, water boatmen suspended still.
Black beetles spin in frenzy, whirling, going nowhere, until.
I dip my net into the pond, breaks the glinting surface tension.
The pond's a lifeline on the hottest day, certainly worth a mention.
Blanket weed clumps lie scattered, in lime green mounds.
Insects land on it, relief, cooling, from cracked, baked hard ground!
Shadows, silhouettes of  shading trees, Alder and Willows sway.
Dappled surface , hot sunlight, the pond alive, throughout the day.


Scheme ABCCDDEEFFGHII
Poetic Form
Metre 101010101011101 1010101100101 1110101010101 100110011010101 10101101011 10100100100101111 1011111010101 11010101010101 1111010110101010 0101101011001010 10111100111 1111011011111 101110110011 1101101010101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 873
Words 146
Sentences 14
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 50
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 694
Words per stanza (avg) 137

About this poem

This is about a large pond in a field, I visited this Summer and found quite fascinating watching - a mini drama was taking place!

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Submitted by ljsanders on September 28, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Laura Sanders

I live in Dorset in the U.K.I am inspired by nature and the countryside, especially the seasons, and the weather.I write about all sorts of topics and my poems are usually rhyming, haiku or free verse. more…

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