This is an analysis of the poem Die Zwane that begins with:
Des hemels spiegel, mild en frisch
de lucht in 't ronde lavend,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XabX XbXX bXXX aXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 0101110 110101001 0101000 11010100 1111011 110101110 01001 0100101 110010 11100101 1011100 1100101110 111110 11011101 1111010 11011000 1000100 1111011 11000100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, en are repeated.
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