This is an analysis of The Nightingale by Felicia Dorothea Hemans.
WHEN twilight's grey and pensive hour
Brings the low breeze, and shuts the flower,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ccee gghh iijj bbiXXaaff
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 110111010 101111010 11010101 10110001 110010111 11011101 11010101 110100101 110111001 11010101 11100111 110101001 111101111 100010100 10010001 10010101 11011101 11110101 111111001 01110001 100101111 01011101 110101111 11010101 11110111 011101001 11110111 11010100 111101110 011101110 11011101 11110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
and, thy
Anaphora
and
