Poem Analysis of Jeg Elsker Dig, Mit Gamle Land by Holger Drachmann for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Jeg Elsker Dig, Mit Gamle Land that begins with:

Jeg elsker Dig, mit gamle Land,
Jeg elsker Dig saa højt jeg kan -...

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Rhyme scheme: AbXXXa XXXaXX aXXAXX AbXXXa XXXXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 110111111 11011111 11111 1111110 1101111 110111 1101111 110110 111100 11001111 1101010 111100 1111101 11111111 1110010 110111111 11011001 111110 110111111 11011111 111101 111100 1111110 11111 11010111 11110101 1001110 1101111 11111111 11110110
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
Average number of words per stanza: 35
Amount of lines: 30
Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; jeg is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, og, mit are repeated.

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