Poem Analysis of Gideon by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig for close reading

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

Midianiten som en Tyrk,
Han rased paa Bjerg og i Dalen,...

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Rhyme scheme: XaXXXX XaXXXb XXXXXX XXcXXX bXXXcX XXXXXX XXXXbX XXXXXa XXXXXX bXbXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XbXbXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1000111 110111110 1011111 10110110 1111101 1011011101 1011111 11111110 1011101 11010010 101011011 111011111 10011101 11011100 1001111 11011100 1011011011 1111101 1011110 11011111 10111111 110111 101101011 1001111011 10010101 1011111 10010111 11011011 1011111001 110111111 10010111 101111 110110 1110101 100111101 11110101 1001111 111011110 11110111 11011010 111101111 111100001 1011111 1101111 101110 1101110 10011101 11111101 1001101 100111 10100101 11011010 111111 1110011101 1010111 111101 11111111 1101110 11011101 11111001 1011101 11011000 10111111 11111000 10111111 11111111 1100111 1101010 100011 110110110 110111 111101011 1001111 111011 101111 111011 01111001 10111101 10111101 1100111 11111101 1001101 1101001011 10101101 101101 110111 10111100 11111 101011010 101011010
Amount of stanzas: 14
Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
Average number of words per stanza: 41
Amount of lines: 96
Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; du, han, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word gideons is repeated.
The author used the same word engelen at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word mand at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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Gideon by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig: poem analysis

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