Poem Analysis of Hvem Seer Jeg Hist Som Lammet Gaae by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Hvem Seer Jeg Hist Som Lammet Gaae that begins with:

Hvem seer jeg hist som Lammet gaae
Til Slagter-Bænk spagfærdig,...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXaaX XXXXbXXXXX bXXXcXXXXX XXbbXXbXXXX XdXXXXXXXX XdXXXXXXbX XXXXbbceeX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,11,10,10,10,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11111101 110110 1111111 111101 0111111 01110100 100100 0110011 0101111 1111010 1010011 1111100 11110111 111010 1111111 11011101 11011 1011011 11011010 101101 1110111 11110 1101111 11110 11111101 11001111 110100 11011101 1101111 11111 1111100 111000 11111 11111111 110100 111111 1111101 110110 11111 11011111 11101 11011111 11101 110011111 110110 10111101 1111100 111111 1110111 1111111 111111 1111111 11111 111111 1111111 1111101 1110101 1111 1111111101 111111 11111 1101011 101111 1111101 11111 10110100 10011101 1101110 11111001 11101111 0111010
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 288
Average number of words per stanza: 60
Amount of lines: 73
Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; er, det, og, saa, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words er, for are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines breed is repeated).

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