Poem Analysis of Løftet I Lejren by Bernhard Severin Ingemann for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Løftet I Lejren that begins with:

Kejseren gav mig Borg og Len
Dertil stor Magt og Ære;...

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Rhyme scheme: abaX cXXX XXXX aXXX XXaX dXXX ccXX XXXa XXXX XXXb eXeX dXdX XXXX cXXc fXfX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10011111 101111 110111101 111101 11100111 110001 1110011 1101101 1011100 110111 11010011 0101111 1011111 110011 111001001 111110 10110010 111111 11010111 11011 1101101 110111 110111101 1101011 1001111111 111111 11011111 1101011 10101111 1101110 10111101 111010 1011101 1111000 110110101 11000110 10110110 111101 11111111 1111111 1011101 110111 11011111 1101111 1111101 1111110 1111111 1111000 1010111 11110 110111011 111011 1110111 111111 11110111 111101 1011111 1111111 11011111 1101101
Amount of stanzas: 14
Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
Average number of words per stanza: 26
Amount of lines: 61
Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; min, han, jeg, v are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word jeg is repeated.

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Løftet I Lejren by Bernhard Severin Ingemann: poem analysis

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