This is an analysis of the poem O, Die Oggendstond Op 'N Boereplaas! that begins with:
O, die oggendstond op 'n boereplaas!
Daar trek al op die eerste rook....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbaXXXXX XabXa XXcXX XXXXX XXbXX cXXXX XXXXX XbXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010100 1111111 11101110 10111110 11011 1111100 10111 101111 1011111 11101 11111110 1011111 01111111 111011111 11011011 11111100 11100 1101111 1101011 11111100 110111 111111 11110111 11011101 11110010 110101110 1111111 1011111 11111101 1110100 1111111 1111111 1011100 11110100 1011111 11011110 1011001 0111111 11001111 101001 1111111 11101111 101011111 111011101 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hy, die are repeated.
The author used the same word die at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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