This is an analysis of the poem Der Walkuren Rid that begins with:
Een ijzelike storm woedt over aarde en wolken.
't Verward geluchte wervelt in de onmeetbre kolken...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXbXXXXcXXbXXXXdXcXXbXXXddXXXbXXXXXaXXXXXdXXdXaXXXXXXXXXeeXXXXXaffaaXXXXbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 78,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011101110 1101010001010 11011000101 01101110011 0101010101010 0101010100110 11010001101 1101011000110 11101010001000 1110101100110 110001100100 0100010101101 110101111100 11010100011 111101100111 11011011011 110101110010 110111001000 110101011110 11010110011 1111111101110 110101110111 110111111010 1111110100010 1010001110111 1101111010101 111011111000 1111100101110 111101010111 110011110111 110110101110 1101110101001 11010111001 111100110101 1101010101110 1110111111010 11001101110111 110101110111 110111011100 1010011111110 10110010111 111100110101 0101011001010 0101001001010 0110101100 10111010011 110110101010 110101010110 110111011101 1111011101101 1101001110110 1111010110110 111110111110 1000011111110 011011101110 11101011001100 100111011101 110111110100 1111010101000 11010110111010 110111111101 101001011101 110111111010 111110111000 111111011001 1101110111011 1101101101100 1110110111110 11011011011 110101000101 11111111100010 1100111101110 101101110110 11011011101 110111110011 111101111110001 101001010101 100111110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4033
- Average number of words per stanza: 692
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, in, en, zij, den, hem, 't, haar, wo, n are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, zij, gaat, en are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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