This is an analysis of the poem The Nightjar that begins with:
We loved our nightjar, but she would not stay with us.
We had found her lying as dead, but soft and warm, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXXcddaeXdcXeccbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111101111101 111010111111 100101010111 1111000101010 101111111100 101010010101 110001111001111 110011110101 110101010010 011011011101 1011010100011 110101011101 001001110110 111001010111 110011010101 1101110010101 111101110101 111111100111 10 1101111001 101001000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1032
- Average number of words per stanza: 196
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; we, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
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- summary of The Nightjar;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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