This is an analysis of the poem Breitmann In Holland. Scheveningen, Or De Maiden’s Coorse that begins with:

HET vas Mijn Heer van Torenborg,
Ride oud oopon de sand, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabcdX XefeagXg XahaXiXi dgjXahfX XXXXXaXa acXckdXd XififXXj XkXkfXld kcdXmXXg XXfckXXX XXndmcfX XbdblXdX dXXlXaca cnXXXhlh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101100 111001 11010100 110001 11010101 111001 11010101 110110 11010111 011101 110101001 111100 11011101 110101 11011101 110011 11111101 111111 11111101 110101 0110111101 110101 11010100 111111 11111001 1111011 010100101 110100 01010111 1111011 111001011 1110111 111101100 1111001 1111111110 1110111101 1111010 010101 110111000 1011101 1101111001 1100111 110100100 110101 0100110111 11111101 11111111 111101101 11111110 111111 110111011 100101 11011111 110101 101101100 111101 11011100 110101 11010100 110101 11010001 110010 11011101 11111 110111001 111111 11110101 111001 11010110 1001101 1110101010 010111 1100111011 110110 110011001 101101 00111110 0010001 10111010 1111111 100101010 1101010 11111001 011011 1111110 111101 111101111 110110 1111100101 011101 11110101 1100101 1101111 1011110 1101111 110001 111111010 110110 1111101110 1100101 1110111 111101 1110101 010100 11110010 1111001 1110110 0010100 1101010 110101 11111001 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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, him, cuss, und, his, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, vhere, 'tvas are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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