The Nightingale by Sir Philip Sidney: poem analysis

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

The nightingale, as soon as April bringeth
Unto her rested sense a perfect waking, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXXaXBXX cXcXaddaXBXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01001111010 10010100110 11111011010 11010101110 1100100 0101100 1101100 11011010010 11010111110 11010101010 11101110 11011111100 01111101010 11011011110 011100101010 11000100110 1111010 1010101 1110011 11001111110 11010111110 11010101010 11101110 11011111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 505
  • Average number of words per stanza: 84
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word invadeth at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Nightingale;
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