This is an analysis of the poem De Laatste Storm that begins with:
Buldrend speelt de zee met 't oude vaartuig.
Kalm, manhaftig kampt de grijze zeeman...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXaXXXaXXXaXXaXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111110 110010110 1111101101 101001110 1110110010 1110101110 1011101101 1010100110 1010100010 10111100110 1111010011 111100110 10101111010 110010110 0101111110 1110101010 10111001110 10110011010 101010110 101010110 101101010 001101110 1010111100 101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1010
- Average number of words per stanza: 167
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, en are repeated.
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