Stip studied classical languages The poem was a
persiflage of the poem
Mária Lécina (1932) written by
J.W.F. Werumeus Buning. After the war, Stip worked as a copywriter for the
Dutch army's press agency and the
Dutch government's press agency. From 1951 to 1979, he was an editor at the
Polygoon cinema newsreel. In 1950, Stip composed a poem collection,
Vijf variaties op een misverstand ("Five variations on a misunderstanding"), about the misadventures of
Pyramus en Thisbe, in the style of five Dutch authors:
Speenhoff,
Jan Prins,
Nijhoff,
Gorter, and
Vondel.
Trijntje Fop From 1951 onwards, he wrote under the pen name Trijntje Fop (borrowed from one of the poem-writing classmates of
Woutertje Pieterse) animal poems for the Dutch newspaper
de Volkskrant. Throughout the years, he wrote many hundreds, that were published in various magazines and collections. Also, he wrote various materials for
Wim Kan. A large collection of poems by Trijntje Fop appeared in 1988 as
Het Grote Beestenfeest ("The Large Animal party"). The animal poems are of a very consistent pattern. Never any smuggling with the
Metre (poetry): every line, without exception, has four stresses. The
rhyme scheme is always AABBCC (an epigram or paired rhyme). Just like a
limerick, somewhere in the verse, often in the first line, the name of a town is mentioned. Most Trijntje Fop verses contain six lines; occasionally, it will be eight lines, and every now and then an even higher number of lines. Some verses also have two lines only. Sometimes, the last lines contain an old-fashioned formulated pseudo-wise lesson for children. The complete poems Kees Stip, including the Trijntje Fop poems, were released in 1993 under the title
Lachen in een leeuw ("laughing in a lion"). This title was borrowed from the poem
Op een spreeuw ("on a starling"). Possibly the most famous Trijntje Fop poem is
Op een bok ("on a billy goat") from the collection
Het Grote Beestenfeest. This verse has its own statue, the
Siddebuurster bok, in the Dutch town of
Siddeburen since 1978, with the poem on its pedestal. Originally, the statue was located on the Oudeweg road, but it was later moved to the corner of Poststraat and Lougpadje. ==Comics==