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

The bulbul bird is silent in the nargis garden
Listening to the laments of the fallen flower ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabb X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101010001010 1000001001010 0011001011101010 101010110010 1001010110101011 011011010101 0100100100101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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