This is an analysis of the poem Ek Wou So Graag 'N Liggie Sien that begins with:
Ek wou so graag 'n liggie sien
wanneer ek in my donker huis...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX aXbcXb dcXXcX XXdXad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 10101101 11010011 01011110 0101111 10110110 1111011 11000101 111110101 11111010 101111 01010111 1110101 11110010 11001111 01010101 10101101 0100100 11100111 01011101 11110101 11111111 11111111 1110011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; die, van are repeated.
The author used the same word ek at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- Analysis of Die Os
- Analysis of Ek Wou My Ganse Digkuns Waag
