This is an analysis of the poem Fierheid that begins with:
Sinds lang bevocht de grave Gent de vrije stede,
en grave en Gentenaars verlangden naar de vrede;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXXXXXbbXXXXXXXXbbXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaaXXccXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 62,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011011 111100100101 11111111101 11110110010 11001001011100 1101101001010 1101001111001 110101110101 0111111011100 01111011110 0110111011 100111110111 110101101010 11111010110 101101011101 11010111100 01101011101 111101110100 1111011111 111111110011 1111110001011 11111111101 111011110001 10011011111 1111010111100 11111101101 010011011101 11111100011 1111101111110 101101001110 11111111111 11100111001 1111011010100 010001011110 111101110101 110101111011 0110101011 111101101110 010001010100 01001101111 1011011011000 1110101101110 101100110000 1100101010100 1111011111010 11111111100110 110011010000 1110001110110 110111101100 111011111010 101101110101 11010101111 1111110011 1111100111010 111101110111 110101110101 1111111110 101111011110 111111111100 110111110110 1011100011000 1010110101100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3133
- Average number of words per stanza: 554
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; en, de, u, ', een are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, en are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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