This is an analysis of the poem Bitter Dolor that begins with:
In its beak, a nightingale had a roseleaf of exquisite color
And on that pleasant food, it nourished on some bitter dolor...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaabbccddeeXXXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 001010010100010010 111101010111010 1110001110101011 1110010000101110 00101011011011110 01001111010110010 111101101010101 10111001010100010011 011100100101110111 010010001010001011 011010111011010 100010101101010110 100101101001101 01000010010110101 01010111 01010101 01000101 11010101 010110010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 531
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of Bitter Dolor;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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