This is an analysis of the poem Trouwlied that begins with:

Door woelig jonglingsleven,
door bonte jonglingsdroomen,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XaXaXX XXXXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101000 111000 10111110 011000 100101110001 1101100100111 1101010 1101010 0110110 1110010 1110010110011 1100010111111 11111010 1111010 1111100 1110110 1111110101101 111110110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • 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, haar are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words door, en are repeated.

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