This is an analysis of the poem Breitmann In Holland. Amsterdam. that begins with:

TO Amsterd-m came Breitmann
All in de Kermes tide; ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbXb XcdXXeXe XcfcXXeX eXgaedhd aXXihjfX eceXXcec gjejXXXc khkhXhhX XjXjfjXj XiXXXXXX ekfkhXXh XXXXXgXgXdhdhaihi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101110 100101 1101000 10111001 0100010 110111 11101110 111010101 1100010 1011101 01110101 1101110 11111100 110111 1101100100 111101 11110010 110001 0111011 11111 110111110 111101 11110101011 010101 111010101 0101001 11110101 0100101 011110101 1110101 111010110110 110101 01010100 111110 111111010 10111011 11011010 1011111 11010101 1011111100 11111001 110001 111101111 11100 1101010 11110101 11011101 111111 11011101 1010101 01110101 10111011 1111010 110101 1101111110 110011 1111010 010101 11000110 10101001 10111010 1110101 011010101 1011110101 1111010 1110101 11110101 11110111 111111010 1111101 1111100 1011101 01010100 010101 01110010 010101 1101010 1111100 11010011 1100100 111111001 111111 11010101 111001 11010101 010101 111111110 111101 10101010 111101 1010101 0111011 1111110 111111 11111 111100 11110101 111101 11110100 010101 010111111 010011 1111111111 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 104
  • 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; de, to, und, silber, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, es, de are repeated.

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