This is an analysis of Amsterdam by Francis Jammes.
THE pointed houses lean so you would swear
That they were falling. Tangled vessel masts…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdX efgag hifXj egkgf bgglj ggggah gXjgl ll cgebf gedXXX cegcb XXcgkg ffbkb XiegX
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,6,5,2,5,6,5,6,5,5,
- Metre: 0101011111 1101010101 1101010101 0101011111 1101010101 1001011101 1111101101 0011100101 1001000101 1101011101 0111010111 0111010111 01100111010 0101010100 11010011101 1001011101 1011010101 1101010001 1111011001 0111010101 1101000101 1111011101 0101010011 1101100101 1001011101 1101100101 1101010101 01011101001 1011111111 0101001101 1111111101 1001011001 1101110111 01001110101 1101110101 01001110011 0100110101 0101010101 0111010101 0101000001 1111110101 10010111101 10010101001 11101011010 1101010101 0101010101 11010101000 1100010100 11111101000 1100110101 110111001011 0111010101 1011010001 1101011101 01011101110 0100010101 1001010011 1101000101 11010111110 0101011101 1111110001 1111110111 11110010101 1111011101 11001111001 11010101011 1110010100 0101001101 1011010101 10010111010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 70
Repeated words/phrases
and, my
Anaphora
my