This is an analysis of What Bird So Sings by Thomas Dekker.

What bird so sings, yet so does wail,
'Tis Philomel the Nightingale;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbCCXXddCC
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 11111111 11000100 1111011 110101011 1111110101 110100001 11111111 10110101 10010101 11111101 1111110101 110100001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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