This is an analysis of the poem Maskers that begins with:
De mensen doen hun maskers af,
ze kijken vreemd elkander aan...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX XXbX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXc XXXX XXXX XcbX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 11011001 10011110 1101 10110111 011111 1011101 1111 1110111 1111011 11101011 1010 01011010 100100010 11001101 0111 11010111 10011101 11010110 1111 11111001 11010101 11011101 111 11011101 11011100 1111110101 1000 11010110 11101110 10010111 1001 11011100 111101 01010111 1100 01011101 1110110 1111100 1001 10011101 101011 1101111 1100 11110101 11001100 110101101 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; zij is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word gemaskerd is repeated.
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- summary of Maskers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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