Poem Analysis of Guldkalven by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Guldkalven that begins with:

Da Moses ned ad Bjerget steg,
Med Himmelbrev ihænde,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX XbXX XXXX XcXX dXXX XXXX XXbX XXXd XXdX XXXX DXXa XXcX bebe DXXX XXXX XXbX XXXX XXbX XXdX dXXX eXeX XXdX XXXX XXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11011101 11001 111110 111111 1110011 111110 1111100 111110 1101110 110111 1010111 111111 1011100 111110 11011111 111010 1010111 110101 11101111 111100 11010111 110100 1111111 110111 11011101 111111 11011001 111110 0101111 111101 11111101 110110 1101111 111110 11011101 1111 11011101 110111 11111111 11001 1101011 111101 11011111 11111 1110111 111011 11010101 11011 1111111 111111 11111111 111011 1101011 1111 1111111 110111 11111111 1101110 1001010 111010 11001101 1110110 11010111 111110 1101011 1111 1110111 11011 1111100 1111 11010101 11111 11011001 11110 1101111 111110 011111 110111 0111101 11111 1111101 110111 110111111 111111 0111111 01011 0111101 111101 1111101 110111 1101101 10110 11110111 1101000 1101111 111100 1101111 11111 1111101 11101 1101111 1011110 110110 10011 1101110 110101 10101110 111101
Amount of stanzas: 25
Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
Average number of words per stanza: 25
Amount of lines: 127
Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; og, i, han, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ei, i, de are repeated.
The author used the same words da, det at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase de connects the lines.

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Guldkalven by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig: poem analysis

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