This is an analysis of The Nightingale by Bernard de Ventadorn.
When grass grows green, and fresh leaves spring,
And flowers are budding on the plain,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXXcc
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 111111101 110110101 110001101 11011101 11100110010 1011101101 1101110101 1100110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
and, in, my, joy