Poem Analysis of Kong Karl Den Tolvte Bæres Over Grænsen by Holger Drachmann for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Kong Karl Den Tolvte Bæres Over Grænsen that begins with:

Blød og tavs er Bjergets Sti,
Sne over alle Fjælde,...

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Rhyme scheme: XXaX bXXX XaXX XCXcdXX XXbXXXcebXebeXbXXXXX XCfcdXX XXXX fXXX aXaX XXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,7,20,7,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1110101 11011 1111111 111101 11011001111 1101101 1111100 1011 1110101101 111111 11011111 110111 1101 1001 100101 111 101111001 11101101 111110110 101111010 11110110 1101101 111110 111101001 1111110 111111111 111110010 1111111 1011011 10001010 110111101 1011010 10111001 11110101 101110 1010110 1111 11011011 10111010 1101 1001 100101 111 111011001 1011011001 1010110110 1110101 11011 1111100 110101 011101111 1111111 1101111 111111 011111101 111110 11111111 11101 11001101 1101100 110111101 1111011
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
Average number of words per stanza: 38
Amount of lines: 62
Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; den, er are repeated.
The author used the same word du at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word baaren at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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