This is an analysis of the poem O Die Pyn-Gedagte that begins with:
O Die pyn-gedagte: My kind is dood! . . .
dit brand soos 'n pyl in my....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAbA XcXX cXXX XXdX XXXX XdXd XAbA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101101 1110101 1111111 1111011111 1111111 11011111 110011110 11111101 1111001011 111111110 110110101 11111111 1110001100 111111010 1100101 1110111 11111010 1101010 010111101 11101111 11011011101 11111001 1111111111 1110111 111101101 1110101 11111111 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die, en, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word die is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sterf is repeated).
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