Poem Analysis of Tilflugt by Jens Baggesen for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Tilflugt that begins with:

Nattergal, som, fiern fra kiælne Mage,
Hørte, bange selv, min bange Klage!...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXbX XXXXXXXX XXXcXXXcXabX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,21,8,12,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10011111 111111 1011101 1110111 101000100 11110111 1111011001 111110111 1110111111 11100111 100011101 11110111 101011101 10110011 10111111 10101011 101110101 111011101 1111001111 1011111 11001011 111110101 110111 111110111 1011111 11010010 111111010 101010101 11010100 1010111010 101011101 101011110 111001110 11011011 10111011 101011100 110111101 10101111 111111111 111110111 1011111 11101111 1011011111 111110101 11111010 10111101 111111011 1000110010 1111011 101110110 11111000
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 446
Average number of words per stanza: 84
Amount of lines: 51
Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i, som are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word som is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ved, rte are repeated).

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Tilflugt by Jens Baggesen: poem analysis

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