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

A Conversation Poem, April, 1798
No cloud, no relique of the sunken day... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcdefghcicjikfkjlmgankhcgXojhfjmpXjgcc knlgXokegqldpiocprljXXgfkcicgiXihlklooinacXokXcji lgfnXibrbcgqnhkofcgnbkgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,39,49,24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010101 1111000101 0100011111 01011011001 1101101101 1101000101 11110001100 10011010101 0101110101 11110101010 1100111111 0100010001 1101000101 1100110001 0101011101 01010101010 11110011111 0001000101 1101010101 1111111001 1111011101 0011011111 1111010101 11001010001 1011010101 1111011101 0101010101 1111100100 0111110100 01000110001 1001010101 1101010100 0100011101 11110100101 0111011101 111101100 110100100001 0111110011 1011001111 10100010101 1111110111 01001111101 1011011101 1101010100 11110110000 0111000101 1101011101 1011110101 0111100011 01010 11101 0101110101 1011010111 0101010101 1011110111 1111110101 1101101111 11010001111 0111010011 1101011101 0101010100 1101001111 1111011111 1001010100 1111111111 01011111110 1101011101 1101010101 1111111111 100110011001 11011 01101 1100011001 1101011101 10101011101 0101110001 1101111111 1101110101 1101110101 1101010101 01001010111 01010111001 1111010100 1011011111 0101011111 1001001100 11001110001 1011010101 1101110101 1111010111 1111110111 11010011100 11111100101 1101011111 11000101001 1110010101 1111010101 0101011101 1111011101 0111011111 0101111101 0110011101 1111111101 1100101101 1110011111 0101111100 10111101001 0100010111 00010110110 1111011111 0100111001 11010011111 1100111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1208
  • Average number of words per stanza: 214
  • Amount of lines: 113
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, and, his, of, you, bright, farewell are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines farewell is repeated).

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