Analysis of Spring Pools
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
These pools that, though in forests, still reflect
The total sky almost without defect,
And like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver,
Will like the flowers beside them soon be gone,
And yet not out by any brook or river,
But up by roots to bring dark foliage on.
The trees that have it in their pent-up buds
To darken nature and be summer woods -
Let them think twice before they use their powers
To blot out and drink up and sweep away
These flowery waters and these watery flowers
From snow that melted only yesterday.
Scheme | AABXBX XXCDCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010101 010110110 010100111010 11010011111 01111101110 1111111101 0111101111 1101001101 11110111110 1110110101 1100100110010 111101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 524 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 209 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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