This is an analysis of The Woodman And The Nightingale by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
A woodman whose rough heart was out of tune
(I think such hearts yet never came to good)…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aba bXb cXc def eXe fgf ghg hih igi gjg jkj kak aha lal aXa fjf jfj Xdf dfd Xjd jjj jaja eXe
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,3,
- Metre: 0101111101 1111110100 1001100111 1100011001 1001010100 1101010101 1101110101 10001010100 10110010111 11010100111 0100110100 0011000101 0101010111 11000010100 01010101001 1001110001 01001010011 0011010100 00100101001 110010111111 11001001101 11001100101 11001110101 11001011001 1001010001 01011111111 0001010101 0101110001 1000010101 1101110101 0111110111 0101011011001 1100010001 1100011101 1101010001 1111110101 0111010100 1011100011 0100111 1101010111 1101010011 0101110101 1101111101 0101010011 10001100101 011100101 1001011101 110010101 0011010111 1011111100 0101000101 11010001000 01111101010 1111111101 10110101010 1011000100 01010101010 1101011100 0110010101 0100100100 1011110101 0011010001 1101111101 10001111011 0111001101 1111010111 1111000101 0101010101 110100101 110100001001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 25
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
as, and, of, every
Anaphora
of, and, one
