Poem Analysis of I En Landsbykirke by Emil Aarestrup for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem I En Landsbykirke that begins with:

Vi sad i Landsbykirken.
En raa Novemberhimmel...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX aXXX XXXX bXXX XXXX XXbX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX 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,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1111000 1110000 101110 11010 11011 1111110 1111110 100110 11111 110010 111110 1000110 111101 110110 110100 110010 1000110 1100010 11111 110100 110110 1101110 10100 111000 110110 111100 111011 1010011 010010 1110110 1101110 1101010 1111100 11110 111110 111111 111111 01111 111110 1111 111110 11010 110011 11111 101111 11111 1101110 11011 111101 1111010 111010 111010 111110 110101 1100110 11101 111110 110111 100110 100011 11100 110001 1110010 111100 110100 11010 110110 110110 111110 11111 111110 110001 101111 11100 100010 11110111
Amount of stanzas: 19
Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
Average number of words per stanza: 18
Amount of lines: 76
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; en, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, en, i are repeated.
The author used the same word der at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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I En Landsbykirke by Emil Aarestrup: poem analysis

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