Poem Analysis of Befrielsens Ord by Bernhard Severin Ingemann for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Befrielsens Ord that begins with:

Min Mund vil Herrens store Ting udtone -
Min Røst vil stige til Eloahs Throne....

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Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX aa XX XX XX bb XX bX XX XX XX XX XX XX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111101110 11111101 11111111 110001110 111001011 11110111 1101110001 110110011 1111000110 11000100100 1101110111 1100010101 11101011 111111011 1111100110 111001110 11011101100 1110111100 111101010 1000010110 1111111100 11100011000 11000001100 101011100 11011101000 11001111100 1111011111011 110110111 111111100 110111101 1111011110 111110111
Amount of stanzas: 16
Average number of symbols per stanza: 78
Average number of words per stanza: 15
Amount of lines: 32
Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; min, det, jeg are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words min, det, jeg are repeated.
The author used the same words det, jeg at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, nger are repeated).

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Befrielsens Ord by Bernhard Severin Ingemann: poem analysis

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