This is an analysis of the poem Op Het Slagveld that begins with:
Door de kruitwolk en des slagvelds gruwlen,
zoekend stapt de Non waar hulp en troost biên....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaX XXX XXX XaX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1010111010 1010111111 1011001010 1110111000 1101100110 1011001110 101100100 1010101010 1010101010 1011011110 101101111010 111101010 110111111 1011101011 0110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, hem, dan are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word meer is repeated.
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- summary of Op Het Slagveld;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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