This is an analysis of the poem Mythos that begins with:
Een hoge hand steekt in de nacht
en zij steekt vóór de nacht ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 111101 1001100110 1111110 110111111 111111110 10011101 1111010 111110 1111 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 341
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 11
- 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; nacht, de are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nacht is repeated).
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