This is an analysis of Lover's Gifts Xvi: She Dwelt Here By The Pool by Rabindranath Tagore.

She dwelt here by the pool with its landing-stairs in ruins. Many
an evening she had watched the moon made dizzy by the shaking of…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXcdXaXXbXeffecdb
  • Stanza lengths: 18,
  • Metre: 1111010010101010 1101110111010100 01111100101010011 11001001101 0110110111111 0011111111101 10101000110010100 00101101111111 1011011100010 0101101011000101 1101101011011010 01001110110110010 10 100101101010100100 110111010101100 10110010010111010 01101011010010 101111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

of, her, and, in, to, day