This is an analysis of the poem Huweliksdichtje that begins with:
In het midden van de feeste,
van het spelen en 't gezang,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX AXXX XXXX AXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101 11101110 111011010 1110110 101011010 10110 1110111000 1111101 110011110 1100111 11001110 1111111 1011110 111011 11110010 1110101 110011110 1100101 10110100 10111100 11111100 1100101 111101110 11000101 1110111 1110111 1101010 110110110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; 't, en, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word en is repeated.
The author used the same word en at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase zij connects the lines.
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- summary of Huweliksdichtje;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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