I bought it for 5 Euro in De Bijenkorf,

this Rijmhandboek: practical guide

for the writing of poems and small songs

 

page 73 gives us the thirty most poetic

words in the Dutch language     dreaming / dreams

heads up the list which ends with lost

 

silent   pain   singing   wind   moon   sea   grass

fire   roads   night   dog   blood   poem   song

forgotten / forget   sun   longing   trees   dream   face   dying

sorrow   with   lap   down    light   past    death

 

the statisticians of language did a simple

calculation   life / live is six times more frequent

in poetry than in prose    death fourteen times

 

dood is a great deal more poetic than leven