Poem Analysis of Slutning by Ludvig Holberg for close reading

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

Nu efter Jovis Bud Skov-Guder og Gudinder
Sig for hans Throne til benævnte Tid indfinder....

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Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101011101100 1111111100 11101111000 111111101 110010111110 11111010011 11110110101 10100111101 1011011111 111111101011 11110111100 111111100 1111111100 1100011111 110101110101 1101111110 111101111010 1100001110010 110111110111 111000100111
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 897
Average number of words per stanza: 166
Amount of lines: 20
Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
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; og, den are repeated.

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Slutning by Ludvig Holberg: poem analysis

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