This is an analysis of the poem Stoet that begins with:
Langzaam trekt een blanke stoet door d'heemlen.
Jesus eerst, der maagden koning, 't aanzicht...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 101111110 10111010110 101101010 10111100 010011100 10101010110 1010101100 1000100010 1011100 1010101010 10101001 10001011 1010101010 1011111010 11100100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 582
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, duizend are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word lijk is repeated.
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