This is an analysis of the poem Daar Is Geen Dood that begins with:
Daar is geen dood.
Wat lewe heet, is net die op en neer...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXa XXXXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1011 111011111 111111111 111110110 111001111 1011 111111111 1011110110 1111110010 1101111001 1011 111001111 1110111111 1011001110 10110101100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; en, ons are repeated.
The author used the same word daar at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dood is repeated).
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