This is an analysis of the poem Het Lied Der Vlaamsche Zonen that begins with:
Nu het lied der vlaamsche zonen,
nu een dreunend Kerelslied,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXXA XXXX XXXXA XXXX XB XXXX XB XXXX XB XXXX XXXXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,5,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 1110100 1011000 1111101 10 1111110 1111000 11111 1010111 10110110 1011100 10110110 1011100 10 10111100 110110 11111 1010111 11011110 111100 111001010 011101 10 101111001 11011010 1010101 11011010 1110011 10 101111001 110110100 1111101 1111010 111101 10 101111001 10111100 111011 0111110 1011111 10 10111110 11011110 11111 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; zijn is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nu, met, en are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines zonen is repeated).
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