This is an analysis of Nughtingale And Cuckoo by Alfred Austin.
Yes, nightingale and cuckoo! it was meet
That you should come together; for ye twain…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1100111011 1111010111 1100010101 1001001101 0111110011 1111110011 11001001111 1101110101 1101011011 11010010011 1111010101 1111000111 1011110111 1101010011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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