This is an analysis of the poem Moses Verlost that begins with:

De zonne rees in purpren gloed en zuiver blauwe lucht,
en kleurde met een roodvergulden sching...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXaXbXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXcXXXaXXXXXaXXXXXcXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 80,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011010111011 111110001 1111100011100 100111001 1111011100010 110101001 100110011011 10100111010 11111110101 100110110 11011011101000 1111111000 1101101011101010 01011001010 111110110011010 011011101 110101011101110 1101110100 01011101010110 111111011 11010111101110 11101011001 111001000100110 11011010110 11011111110001 111101110 010111001110110 0111111010 110101000111010 10100110011 110101011101110 110111010 1111110111111010 11111101010 11111111011100 1101010101 110010011111110 11011101000 1101111110011 1101111100 111101111111110 11010110011010 1111011000110 111101110 111101011110110 111111011 110011111100101 110101011 11110111101000 1111110111 1111101010010 11110111101 101101111110 1101010110 11010110111101 1111111101 0101111111010 11011101100 11010101111100 1011011011 11010111010010 111101110 11001111101101 1010110101 1111111111010 111111111 111100111011000 1101011101 11111011101110 1101011101 010100111101110 11111111 01110110111010 1111011010 1110011111011 1101011101 1110111111100 10101111110 111001011101111 111011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4262
  • Average number of words per stanza: 724
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • 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; met, de, gouden, en, het are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words met, en, de are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines handen, ' are repeated).

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