This is an analysis of the poem Die Sfinks Van Memfis that begins with:
Die leeueliggaam le nog soos altyd
in diepe rus, tog klaar tot selfverweer....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001110 011111100 1100101101 111111000 1010111110 11111010 1110011100 010101111 1110111111 101100011 1111111101 111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; die, en, met are repeated.
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- summary of Die Sfinks Van Memfis;
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- idea of the verse;
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