This is an analysis of the poem Die Stille Rusplaas that begins with:
Drie verse uit 'Die Tuin van Proserpina'
Die Juigende, die Sterke -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXXaaXX XbXbXXXb XcXXXddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111000 11011 111111 111111 01011 110111 111111 111100 11110 101111 111111 1111110 11111 1010111 1011100 101111 1000011 111110 111111 1101100 111110 1101010 1011110 1100110 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die, ons, hier, n, g are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words die, hier, n are repeated.
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