Poem Analysis of Hvis Jeg Var Riig by Knud Lyne Rahbek for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Hvis Jeg Var Riig that begins with:

Hvis jeg var riig?" — saa raabe alle Munde,
og faa forstod dog kun at være det!...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX Xaba XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXb
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111101111 111011111 111111011 11011101 1111111010 11111100 1111111110 1111001101 110111111 111011100 111110001 1111111100 11011111 1111110101 111111101 1111111111 1111110101 111111011 111111111 1111111 1111111 111111110 111011101 11001011111 110110011 11011110 1111011 1101101100 111110110 01111011 1111111011 110101000 1111111 111111101 111111111 111111111
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
Average number of words per stanza: 32
Amount of lines: 36
Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; det is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word den is repeated.
The author used the same words hvis, var at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Hvis Jeg Var Riig by Knud Lyne Rahbek: poem analysis

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