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Understanding “Et comme si le temps eût pu s’arrêter avec moi”

yes, it’s conditionel ‘second form’. That form is used almost exclusively in literature.
You could replace it by ‘aurait pu’ which is the conditionel ‘first form’. ‘avait pu’ has a slightly different meaning, almost as if there was an opportunity for time to stop, but somehow it didn’t happen. With the conditionel tense, the author wants to convey that time stopping can only be dreamt of and not actually something that could happen.
as above, in literature the second form gives a much more ‘stylish’ tone to the sentence, and reads better than the first form. The meaning is the same.
As above.