Analysis of Song Of The Nightingale
Once was a time
I was young enough,
to know and feel the truth
But the years laid claim
to my memory,
and the seeds to every fruit
Today is but folly,
tomorrow a fool,
the past like fine wine ages true
Where a nightingale sings
in my dreams unrestrained
—that song of myself ever new
(The New Room: November, 2020)
| Scheme | XXX XAX AXB XXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 11101 110101 10111 11100 00111001 011110 0101 01111101 101001 01101 1111101 011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 306 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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