This is an analysis of the poem Waarheid that begins with:
Ter Waarheid streeft mijn twijfelend gedacht,
ter Waarheid streeft mijn rustelooze ziel,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXbXXXXXccXXaXaXXXXXXXbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110010 110111001 11011111110 110111001 11110011000 1011110000 110001001100 11001001100 110010011 1010011010 1011100111 1111011101 1110110110 1111011011101 101111100 111001100 1101100111 1011100110 1010011011 1011001100 1111011110 1101110101 111111011 1111110011 11111101101 10011111101 10011101101 10110100110 1111111111 1111111111 1010011010 1011100111 111011110 111110011010 1101011110 110111011 11111001101 11111011110 1101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1690
- Average number of words per stanza: 290
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; ter, waarheid, mijn, en, 't, dicht, geen are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ter, door, geen are repeated.
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- summary of Waarheid;
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