This is an analysis of the poem Magnolia that begins with:
Dit is de tak met de bloem alleen
de andre bomen gaan al moe...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaa XXXX aXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 100110110 01110111 11111011 100111101 0110110 01110101 11011101 111101001 1111110 111101 0110110 10001010 100011010 11010100 0100100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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 is repeated.
The author used the same word dit at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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