This is an analysis of the poem Avond that begins with:
Ik vluchte geern de stede bij het dumsteren van den dag.
De zon smelt weg doch monkelt nog een rooden avondlach...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXaaXbXXXXXXbbXXXaXXXXbXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXcXXXaaXcXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXbXXXXXbbddXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 86,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111100111 01111101110100 1001110111011000 11011101110110 1101111110101 11110111110101 011011111101100 1001111111011110 11101101010101 11010101100111 111111111101110 111111011100110 100111111101111 110100101110110 101111011111110 1101011110011110 100101011111100 1100111111001 11010111111011 11100101011001 1101111011101 1101100101111 010110011011101 1101011101111 110011000111101 110001001111101 1111110010100010 11011101111000 11000000100001 110111001101101 11111010011111 1111011111101 11101011110110 111001110111010 1100111101101110 110101001101110 01111001101111 10011100111101 110010011101100 110101011101000 11111110110110 11001001110011 10101111011101010 1111010010010 111001101110110 01010101101101 11010100010111 11011101111101 11100011111011 01001010010101 11110111101 111100100110111 01110011101111 1110111101111 1100111101110 11011111011010 110110111001 1101010111001 010111101011000 11011011110010 11001101111111 110111011101 1101111101101110 11111110101010 11111111111000 110111001110100 110101011101100 1110010111010110 11011111111100 1101101110101 1111001111100010 1011000111101000 11111010110010 1011000110101 11010111010110 1101111011101110 11010101110011 111011111110111 110101011100010 111101111101010 11010101110010 0111010001001 100110111101010 1100001011001110 11110001110010 1111100111100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4991
- Average number of words per stanza: 884
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, daar, hij, 't, zoo, de, met, het, een, dan, den, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word en is repeated.
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