Analysis of The Pool
Hilda Doolittle 1886 (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) – 1961 (Zurich)
Are you alive?
I touch you.
You quiver like a sea-fish.
I cover you with my net.
What are you - banded one?
Scheme | ABCDE |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tanka (60%) Cinquain (60%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1101 111 1101011 1101111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 115 |
Words | 25 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 5 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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