This is an analysis of the poem Uchtendliefde that begins with:
Zilver zijn de wegen,
Zilver zijn de weiden,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 101010 1010101 10110 10101 101100 1011001 111000 101110 101000 101011 101010 101110 101110 1011000 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, zilver, zoenen are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words zilver, zingen, zoenen, zalig are repeated.
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