This is an analysis of the poem The Nightingale And Glow-Worm that begins with:

A Nightingale that all day long
Had cheered the village with his song,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddeecc XXaaffcXffgh ffiicchh jjgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,12,8,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01001111 11010001 111101010 111100110 01011111 01010101 11010001 11110101 01010001 11011101 11010111 11011001 01010001 01111100 11011111 11111100 11010111 11110111 110111001 11011101 11010101 11011101 010101010 1100101010 01111101 11010111 11010011 11100001 110111010 1101010110 11111101 11110101 01001101 01010101 11010101 110001111 11010101 01111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 333
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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