This is an analysis of the poem What Bird So Sings that begins with:

What bird so sings, yet so does wail,
'Tis Philomel the Nightingale;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbCCXXddCC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 11000100 1111011 110101011 1111110101 110100001 11111111 10110101 10010101 11111101 1111110101 110100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 421
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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 is repeated.

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