Analysis of The Nightingale Near The House

Harold Monro 1879 (Brussels) – 1932



Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn:
It listens, listens. Taller trees beyond
Listen. The moon at the unruffled pond
Stares. And you sing, you sing.

That star-enchanted song falls through the air
From lawn to lawn down terraces of sound,
Darts in white arrows on the shadowed ground;
And all the night you sing.

My dreams are flowers to which you are a bee
As all night long I listen, and my brain
Receives your song, then loses it again
In moonlight on the lawn.

Now is your voice a marble high and white,
Then like a mist on fields of paradise,
Now is a raging fire, then is like ice,
Then breaks, and it is dawn.


Scheme ABBC XDDC XXXA XEEA
Poetic Form
Metre 110110101 1101010101 1001100101 101111 1101011101 1111110011 1011010101 010111 11110111101 1111110011 0111110101 01101 1111010101 110111110 11010101111 110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 614
Words 121
Sentences 8
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 121
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Harold Monro

Harold Edward Monro was a British poet, the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public. more…

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