This is an analysis of the poem Rosa Rosarum that begins with:

Kom naar mijn tuin waar de donkerrode rozen
duistere geheimen vertellen aan de nacht;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX aXaX XbXX XXXX XXXX XXXb XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111010010 10100100101 10000110000 101101111 100110000110 1001011010 11100010000 1110000111 11010101 101101101 11000101 0100000011 1101011110 101010011 1001011110 110101101 1001010010010 100101101 1110111100 1101110010 1100110100 1001010011 1101010111100 001001011 100101101110 110100100 10010111110 1111111100 11010011000 0110010110 101110110110 1111110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The author used the same word kom at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

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