Poem Analysis of Davids Klage Over Jonathan by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Davids Klage Over Jonathan that begins with:

Israels Hæder,
Sjunken paa høilændde Stæder!...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXXXXa XXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXaXXX XXXX XXXX bbXbXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,6,8,6,4,4,7,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 101 10111 1010011 101 111111 11101 1111001 111000111 1101 110 111001 101 111 1111101101 1011011011 111110101 1001 11010 1110011100 111 111001 1101001 10111 1111011 110111 11110010 10110110 111 111100 11111111 111101 1011111 111111000 110111 100111 100111100 1001 11110010 1110 1011011 1001011 1101100 1111001 111001110001 100110111 110101001
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
Average number of words per stanza: 30
Amount of lines: 50
Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, som are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words gid, at are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines der, res, de, vet are repeated).

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