This is an analysis of the poem What Bird So Sings, Yet So Does Wail? that begins with:

What bird so sings, yet so does wail?
Oh, 'tis the ravished nightingale. ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddeEE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 110100100 11111011 11011111 11111111 11011111 111011101 01110111 11010101 11010101 11010101 110100001 110100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 492
  • Average number of words per stanza: 89
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; jug, hark are repeated.

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

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

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