This is an analysis of the poem Regendag that begins with:
Och hoe droevig sleept de dag. Betrokken
ligt de lucht met wolken grijs en grauw,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXaXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101100 101110111 1101111010 1101111 101100110 11100111101 110010110 10111011 110111110 100101100 11111010110 111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 487
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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; en is repeated.
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- summary of Regendag;
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- idea of the verse;
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- critical appreciation.
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