This is an analysis of the poem Weelde that begins with:
De nacht ligt op de steê. Daar rijst een donker hoog gebouw.
Wijd al den eenen kant strekt zijne hoving,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,54,40,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111110110 1111011110 100110101110010 100111011 11101111001010 1111101 11011111001100 11110011100 011011110011 10101110011 110111011001110 011001110 11011101110100 1001110100 11111101011110 101110111110 110101100111110 110101110 10110011101111010 1101010001 110001111101101 11001011110 1100011111001 1101101110 100111101100101 11010111010 11011100110001 1110101100 11010101010111 110111100 11001101111110 111100101100 10110111110100 10101001100 010101011110010 101011001100 010101101001010 0101110100 101010100100101 1101010001 111111101101011 110110111 0101110111101 11111111110 11110101110011 111111000 1110001110001110 111101001 01110110111000 110110101 11010100101111 11101110110 11011100110100 1111010010 011011100100110 111111010 100101000011010 111011101 101010011101100 10110001010 11011111101010 110111100 010010011001010 1111010110 0111010101010 0100110010 100110011101010 010110100 01100101010100 1101011011 11011000010111 111010011 110111111101000 11011100110 1100010111101 111011010110 111111110111110 1111101011 11011011000111000 01111011010 01011111110111 1111100101 1101001110110 1101110100 10011100010111 11111111110 110111001110100 111110011 11011110110111 1101110101 110100101111 110101011 11011011011110 1111111100 101110111100010 1111110110 110101011110010 11010110100 11010111001100 110110010 11011100110001 111111011 010010011101010 1101010101 11001111101110 1110110111 11110101110110 1111111111 110011111111110 11011111100 1011101101111 1111011101 111111011100101 111111000 110101110101010 110111001 1101011110110 11111110 11011101110101 11110101110 1110101110101 1101111011 01011100110110 1110100010 1110111110110 1111110100 111101111010 11010111110 1100111011011010 1111001101 110111011101110 110100101 01111011111010 1110100110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2379
- Average number of words per stanza: 390
- Amount of lines: 134
- 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; de, en, van, daar, die, in, een, het, o, hij, den, hoe are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words en, daar, een, de, in, des are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines weelde is repeated).
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- summary of Weelde;
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