Poem Analysis of Naar Jeg Skal Døe, Jeg Mit Farvel by Christian Winther for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Naar Jeg Skal Døe, Jeg Mit Farvel that begins with:

Naar jeg skal døe, jeg mit Farvel
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Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XabX XXXX XXbX XXXX XXXX aXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1110111110 1101111 1111110 1111111 11101101 110110 1111100 11011111 11101111 1111101 110111 11111110 11101101 110111 1111111 111111001 11101100 1110011 11111101 1101100 1110011 11011101 1110011 1111100 11101111 1011010 1111011 1100110 1111110 10011101 1101111 11111101
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
Average number of words per stanza: 27
Amount of lines: 32
Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
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; jeg is repeated.
The author used the same word naar at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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