This is an analysis of the poem Na Den Slag that begins with:
De donkerende nacht betrok den wijd gesternden hemel,
de rustelooze zee, de hooge duinen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001101110010 010010110 010101111010 101110110 110111001101000 100100011 01000110110110 111111111 110111011100010 11011101010 111000101011010 11110011101 1111011011111 1111110010 1111100111100 111111011 11011101100110 100110010 11111011110001 11011001010 11010001100110 11111000110 011001011101010 1111110010 110111011101110 1110111101110 10110101111110 1101111100 11101011001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1537
- Average number of words per stanza: 244
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, het, daar, en are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, daar are repeated.
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