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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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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