This is an analysis of Hugo's "Pool In The Forest" by Eugene Field.

How calm, how beauteous and how cool--
How like a sister to the skies,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd aeaefbfbXaaaa
  • Stanza lengths: 8,13,
  • Metre: 11110111 11010001 01010101 10010101 01110101 10010101 01110101 01010111 11010101 01010001 01010101 010011101 11011101 1101011 11010101 11011101 11111101 01010111 11100101 11000101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

how

Anaphora

how, the, they