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 |
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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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