Poem Analysis of Til Bogen by Jens Baggesen for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Til Bogen that begins with:

Gaae, lille Bog, i Verden ud, og vandre
Taalmodig om deri saa langt du kan!...

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Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX bXbX XXXX XcXX cdcd XaXa XdXd XeXe
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111110111 1001101101 11001111011 1111100110 1111001111 110100111 111000111 111101111 1111011101 1101110111 101111111 1111001011 111110111 11111010 1111111101 1011110111 101111011 1011000100 010011111 1101010110 1101111110 1110011101 11111101110 11101111 1111010001 1111101101 1101100101 1100111 1111100110 110110101 1111111110 110111101 1110111100 1111011101 11011101100 111111
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
Average number of words per stanza: 32
Amount of lines: 36
Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; kan, med, som, r, v are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, v are repeated.

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Til Bogen by Jens Baggesen: poem analysis

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