Poem Analysis of Til Fru F* B* by Jens Baggesen for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Til Fru F* B* that begins with:

Du, hvem jeg, naar kommer Alt til Alt,
Hvis min Sang en anden Ynde hylder,...

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Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXbXbXXXXXcXXcXX XXXdXXXXXXdXdeXe XX XfXXfXXXaeXXXaXXbbX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,16,2,19,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 011110111 111110110 111111101 1111111010 01101110 111010110 110011110 11111010010 111011100 10011111 11001101 11000111 011110100 11111101 10001111 1101111 010010011 111110110 1011100 111110111 11111101 1110111 1110111111 111011100 110110100 11110110 11101110 1110101100 1111101100 10101010 111101110 1011111 101001110 1110101 1010100110 111010101 111111100 111011011 1010110110 11111110 11111100 111100111 111110111 1110101000 10111111 111100111 111101110 10100110 111100011 111010110 1110000010 11001111 111111111 111000111 111001111 11101011 1111101001 01110100 01100001111
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 535
Average number of words per stanza: 98
Amount of lines: 59
Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, og, i, det are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hvis, i are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word n at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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