This is an analysis of the poem Prologus Van Het Drama Gudrun that begins with:

De Dichter droomt en pegelt door de nevelen der tijden,
en ziet een groot volk stijgen soms uit wilde reuzenstrijden,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXXXXXXXaXXXXaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010111010100110 11111101111000 111101011111110 11011010110100 110110001100110 01011111110010 11100111111011 111111111001 111001111000110 01101111101010 10110011011001 11010110110111 11101011111110 101110010100110 111101111110100 11100111101111 101111010101110 100101001001110 1011011010111101 10111011010101 111011011111100 100101111101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1344
  • Average number of words per stanza: 233
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, een, 't, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word en is repeated.

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  • summary of Prologus Van Het Drama Gudrun;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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