Poem Analysis of Fragment [hellige, Hellige, Hellige Gud] by Johannes Ewald for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Fragment [hellige, Hellige, Hellige Gud] that begins with:

Hellige, Hellige, Hellige Gud,
Du som ufaldne med Rædsel tilbede -...

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Rhyme scheme: XXaXbcbc XXXaaXdXXXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdcXc
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,35,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1010101 01101110 101111111 1010011111 1110011010 1010110111 101111010 111110111 1111100011 1101011101 1101111 110111011 111001101 11111111 111110001 1111111 111110111 1111011001 11111110 110111101 1101010101 11111111 111001110 11010111 111111101 111101111 1001010111 11101111 110111001 1110 110111100 111111111 111111101 11100110 110111100 111111011 10111111 101111111 1101011 1011101 1110111111 110111101 10
Amount of stanzas: 2
Average number of symbols per stanza: 825
Average number of words per stanza: 156
Amount of lines: 43
Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; hellige, v, ham, om, og, naar are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words om, og are repeated.

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Fragment [hellige, Hellige, Hellige Gud] by Johannes Ewald: poem analysis

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