Poem Analysis of Farvel! by Jens Peter Jacobsen for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Farvel! that begins with:

Ung Sigurd hed en Sanger,
Om ham jeg synge vil,...

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Rhyme scheme: aXXb XcXX XdXd aeXX XXfX XXXX XgXg XXXX XXXh iXXX bXXX XXXh XXXX XXXX XXch XXXX iXXX feXX XeXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101110 11111 1100110 1111 100101 111101 11111 11111 110111 110111 11011 1111 110110 111111 1111 111100 111111 111111 111111 11101 1111010 110111 11111 11111 111101 11111 1101110 110111 1101110 110101 1101010 110111 1111110 111111 110101 110011 111101 11111 1101010 11111 1111 1111 11110 11010 111101 1111 1101100 110101 111110 11111 010100 11000 111101 11011 1101010 111101 11111 1111 11111 11001 11111 11111 111101 11011 110111 11101 111110 1111 1111011 110101 11111 11011 110101 110111 11110110 110010
Amount of stanzas: 19
Average number of symbols per stanza: 96
Average number of words per stanza: 20
Amount of lines: 76
Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, den, gav, ham, m are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, alt, og, han, hun are repeated.

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