This is an analysis of the poem Duitsch Beleg that begins with:
De nacht ligt over veld en steê,
ter wallen waken wachten,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 1101010 1111101 11000110 0111111 1101010 11011111 1100110 01110111 1101010 011101011 1101110 110101101 111110 11101011 10100110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die is repeated.
The author used the same word de at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word grachten at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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