Analysis of The Nightingale Has A Lyre Of Gold
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
The nightingale has a lyre of gold,
The lark's is a clarion-call,
And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute,
But I love him best of all.
For his song is all of the joy of life,
And we in the mad, spring weather,
We two have listened till he sang
Our hearts and lips together.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 010010111 01101001 001011011 1111111 1111110111 01001110 11110111 10101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 278 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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