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

Over dorp en over veld
't helderklingend kloksken schelt;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101 11000101 11101000 10101000 1011110 11100 1001100 111100 10010010 110110010 1100110 11001 1010100 0110111 11101010 1011000 10001110 11001 10111 1010110 1001010 1110110 1010100 10111 1011101 01010101 01011101 1110101 1110110 10100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word de is repeated.

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  • summary of Zondag;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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