This is an analysis of the poem Nag Op Die See, Digby Aden that begins with:
Dis alles see en alles donkerheid,
soos toe die aarde woes en ledig was...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111100 111111101 1110111100 11000101010 1101111111 111111111 1111011111 110111010 1110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, die are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word geen is repeated.
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