This is an analysis of the poem Ode To A Nightingale that begins with:
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXacXa dedeeXfedf cdcdaaXaaX gXXacdXcda cacahdahda fefegdhXdh hdhdefdefd ijijafkafk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 1111011111 11011100001 101111111 1111001101 11011001100 11111001 0101001 0101111100 1001001101 1101010110 101100111 1001010101 1110011111 1101010011 1001010100 0101010101 11011 1111110101 101101000101 1101011101 1101011101 0100010101 1111111101 1101011111 1111110111 11010001010 110101 1101010101 11111001011 0101110101 1100110101 110101010 1011010101 0100110001 1100110101 1001110101 111011 11010000101 11001110101 11011101111 1110110101 100110111 10001000101 0101010111 11110100101 11010010101 111101 0101110101 01001011101 10110111001 11010101001 1111010011 0100011101 1111010101 0101011011 1111011101 011100 1111111101 0111000101 1111110101 1101010111 0111010111 0101110011 0101111101 1011011111 11010101001 011111 110100100101 01001010101 0101010101 0111010111 0101010111 1101010101 0101110101 1011110011 1011111101 001101 1001010101 1011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 465
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; of, and, where, to, adieu are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, where, the are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase forlorn connects the lines.
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