Assertion: nightingale's song | /r/HasProperty | plaintive
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text: The nightingale clearly wins here, and in a turn aside from the poetical and mythological, Barrington in a supposedly scientifically – albeit highly subjective – way, deems the nightingale’s song to be superlative, and deduces that its song is ‘plaintive’.
text: The nightingale is more artistic, but his song is melancholy, he is so sentimental!
text: First published in the collection Lyrical Ballads, "The Nightingale" (1798) is an effort by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) to move away from associations that the nightingale's song was one of melancholy and identified it with the joyous experience of nature.