This is an analysis of the poem A Translation Of The Nightingale Out Of Strada that begins with:
Now the declining sun 'gan downwards bend
From higher heavens, and from his locks did send... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdeaaffXgcccXddeXeehXXdXXcciiXXXXdXccccjjhhddffeeaakkXXiieeXXggXXXXeebbccgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 80,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001011101 01010100101 0101110101 0100010101 0101100101 0101110001 01001001101 0100010101 1101010001 1101010111 1100010100 0101100100 11001011001 01010010101 0100011101 01101011110 0101110101 1101110001 0010010101 1101110101 11001010101 10110001010 0101010011 01001010101 11010111001 01101110100 110010101001 0101010101 11010111110 01011101100 0111100101 1111011101 0111111101 0101110101 1011011101 1101000101 11010100110 11010101010 10011001001 11011100111 11001001101 0101011101 1101010101 1001110101 110100101001 1111010101 10011010101 0101010111 0101011111 1101011101 1001011100 1101110100 0101011111 1111010101 1001010101 0111110001 1001110101 1101110101 01000101110 01110101110 11001010111 11011000101 1111111101 01010110111 10011101010 10110100110 110101010 0010011101 1111010111 1001011111 0101011101 1111000110 0101011011 01011101011 1000110010001 1101010001 11011110100 1100010100 11101011101 100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3525
- Average number of words per stanza: 602
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; them, and, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, with are repeated.
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