Poem Analysis of Ebræernes Plage by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Ebræernes Plage that begins with:

Et Paradis var Gosen,
Saa godt som Kanaan,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: XXab XcXX XcXX XXbX XXXX bbXX XXaX XXXX XXXb XXaX XXXb XXXX XbXX XXXX XdXd acXX XXXX XXXX XXbX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1010110 11110 1101110 11101 11111 110111 1101010 11010 110111 11111 111111 1101010 11111 01101 11011 111101 011110 110101 1101000 11111 11011 11011 10100 110101 111110 0111 1111110 111111 01111 01111 111111 010111 111100 111100 110111 110011 11111 11111 11111 111100 1101110 11111 110110 111101 11111 111101 11101 11110 10110 011101 111110 11100 011111 110111 110110 111110 11101 11011 111101 11011 1111110 11010 1111100 11111 01011 110111 111111 110101 01111 11111 110101 11101 11101 101100 11011 011101 1111 11110 11101 01110 01111 11110 100110 01111 110111 11011 1111 11011 11101 11101 110111 01111 11101 1111 11111 111100 110011 11011 110011 1111
Amount of stanzas: 24
Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
Average number of words per stanza: 21
Amount of lines: 124
Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, d, er, hans are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hans, de, nu, han are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word gud at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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