Analysis of The Pool
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall 1883 (Gunnersbury, London) – 1922 (Vancouver)
COME with me, follow me, swift as a moth,
Ere the wood-doves waken.
Lift the long leaves and look down, look down
Where the light is shaken,
Amber and brown,
On the woven ivory roots of the reed,
On a floating flower and a weft of weed
And a feather of froth.
Here in the night all wonders are,
Lapped in the lift of the ripple's swing,–
A silver shell and a shaken star,
And a white moth's wing.
Here the young moon when the mists unclose
Swims like the bud of a golden rose.
I would live like an elf where the wild grapes cling,
I would chase the thrush
From the red rose-berries.
All the day long I would laugh and swing
With the black choke-cherries.
I would shake the bees from the milkweed blooms,
And cool, O cool,
Night after night I would leap in the pool,
And sleep with the fish in the roots of the rush.
Clear, O clear my dreams should be made
Of emerald light and amber shade,
Of silver shallows and golden glooms.
Sweet, O sweet my dreams should be
As the dark, sweet water enfolding me
Safe as a blind shell under the sea.
Scheme | ABCBCDDA EFEFGG FHGFG GIIHJJGKKG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011101 101110 101101111 101110 1001 10101001101 10101000111 001011 10011101 10011011 010100101 00111 10111011 110110101 11111110111 11101 101110 101111101 101110 111011011 0111 1101111001 01101001101 11111111 11010101 11010101 1111111 10111011 110111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,021 |
Words | 206 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6, 5, 10 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 200 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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