This is an analysis of the poem Amsterdam, September 1939 that begins with:
Vir Ernst
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bX XX XX XX XX XX aXXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 11111111101 110111001111 111111111 11010111111101 111111011110 110111011111 1010011011100 11110110110111 11111100101100 11111111111 101111111111 1110010111011 1111010011111 100111110111111 1111011010111 111111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die, en, n, ons are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words die, ons, en are repeated.
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- summary of Amsterdam, September 1939;
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