This is an analysis of the poem Wandeling Langs De Vaart that begins with:

Een lentezonne schong op dorpen, land en hoven.
Wij stapten langs de vaart van Mechelen naar Loven....

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXXbXXXXXXaXccXXXXXXaaXXddXXXXXXXXXXXXXeffXXXeXXXcXXXXXXXXXXffXXXXXXXbXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 76,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011101110 1101011100110 11101011011 110100111101 11011101100100 11011101110 111110111111 1110111111101 010001111111000 1011001101100 0111011111111 110001111101 1110011101110 1011011101000 1111101111101 11110111011 10111011111110 111111110100010 11011011011 1111001110 011111110101 110111110110 111001111100 110011110111 1110100111100 111101111111 1000111111101 10111111111 1111011000110 1001111011111 11111110110 1111111110111 110100111101 101101110110 11111111010 111000110001 1101010101000 1101110111000 11111110110 110111111101 111101111100 10110111011 100111111011 110101110011 100111011110 1101011101011 1111101111100 111101101001 1100011111000 110111110010 111101111000 11010111111 1010111011010 1001111111100 100101011100 11011111111 1001100110110 1101110111100 0110010011011 110111010011 111010111110 1101010100110 11011111111 010110111101 11011111011110 10010101001100 110110110000 1011111000 11001111110 100011001011000 111111111110111 11111111110 1111101101000 11001011110100 110101110100 110111110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3995
  • Average number of words per stanza: 692
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, het, in, een, naam, van, de, zijn, voor, 't are repeated.

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