Poem Analysis of Paa Sneen by Emil Aarestrup for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Paa Sneen that begins with:

Hen over Torv og Gade,
Hvor Sneen laae, den hvide,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 110111 11111 101101 111101 110001 100110 1111010 1100 11111 101100 111111 1111 1100100 1011000 11101 111110 11011 1111 11111 10011 111101 101100 10011 110111 111101 111100 111011 1101100 111100 111011 11011 11111 010010 11101 100101 110111 111010 110011 11111111 110111
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
Average number of words per stanza: 18
Amount of lines: 40
Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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.

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Paa Sneen by Emil Aarestrup: poem analysis

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