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

Ik voel mijn ziel een klein gehucht
Van nachtelijke landen...:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111110 110010 011010111 1111110 1111101 1101110 111111 11111010 101111100 111110 11111100 1101110 11111101 110111 11101111 1101100 01011110 0101100 11110101 1101100 1111110 1110100 10111111 1101110 11111110 1110110 110111101 1101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.

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  • summary of Nachtwake;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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