This is an analysis of the poem The Nightingale that begins with:
WHEN twilight's grey and pensive hour
Brings the low breeze, and shuts the flower, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ccee gghh iijj bbiXXaaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111010 101111010 11010101 10110001 110010111 11011101 11010101 110100101 110111001 11010101 11100111 110101001 111101111 100010100 10010001 10010101 11011101 11110101 111111001 01110001 100101111 01011101 110101111 11010101 11110111 011101001 11110111 11010100 111101110 011101110 11011101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Nightingale;
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