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

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

Med Korset og Krumstaven,
Alt som en Bussemand,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: XXXa XbXc dcdc XaXX XXXX dcXc dXXX XXdX XXXX XXeX XXXX XXXa XXeX XXXf XXXX XadX XXXc XfXX XXXX eXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XaXX XXXX XXeX XXbX XXXX XXXX Xbcdc
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101100 111100 111110 11101 1111100 111101 110110 11111 111110 11111 1101110 110101 10110 101101 110111 11110 1111010 1111 1101110 110001 111110 1111 1100110 111111 110110 110100 1101110 110100 110110 11111 1111010 110111 110111 111101 110101 11011 1101100 110111 1101010 11101 110111 110100 110011 11010 110111 111101 11111 110101 1111010 11111 011010 111111 111101 110011 11111 111101 110111 111101 111101 11010 110110 110111 111110 110011 10111 110111 110101 111111 110101 110111 11011 11011 01101 110111 110111 110101 1101110 11010 111111 11011 11011 11011 110111 11111 101011 11011 111011 11111 111110 110101 111110 110101 100111 110101 1111 111101 11101 111111 110101 111111 0101 111101 11011010 011011 111111 100101 110111 111110 11110 111101 01111 110100 1011110 11111 1111110 111111 1111101 100101 110111 100011
Amount of stanzas: 30
Average number of symbols per stanza: 96
Average number of words per stanza: 19
Amount of lines: 144
Average number of symbols per line: 20 (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; i, og, af are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
The author used the same words han, det at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word rd at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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Hildebrand by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig: poem analysis

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