This is an analysis of the poem The Nightingale's Nest that begins with:

Up this green woodland-ride let’s softly rove,
And list the nightingale - she dwells just here.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbabcdecdecfgcfgffhfXcddcchfifefieXdeedhidhcechejhjbdcbdcbbkhlkhllXblXlgehheefbbfXbebXlaflgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 93,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011111101 1101001111 1101110111 0111000101 11110100101 1111110111 1111110101 1111111101 1101011101 11110111011 1011010101 1111010101 1011111101 0101110101 11001101001 1111010111 1111011101 0101011101 1101111001 1111011101 1111011101 0111000100 1101111101 1111000101 00110101001 0101111101 0101010001 1011011101 1001011101 0101110101 1101010101 10010001001 1100110101 1101010101 01111101001 11010111100 0101000101 0100010101 1101110101 1100010101 0111010101 11101100101 1001110101 01001010101 1101000101 1111010101 1101010101 1101111111 1101011101 1111000101 0111110101 1111110101 1111010101 0101111101 11001111101 1101010111 1100011101 1101010101 1101010111 0111011101 1101011101 11011101001 01010001101 1111010111 1001110101 01111100101 1111111101 11010111100 1011010001 1101010001 110011010010 11011111001 1100010001 11011100101 1100010011 11000011101 1011010011 0100111101 1101110101 1101011111 11010100111 1011110101 11000101100 1101010101 11000010111 01110100101 1111010110 0101010101 11010010101 01001110101 1011011101 1111010101 1011110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 772
  • Amount of lines: 93
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, in, to, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of are repeated.

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