Poem Analysis of Kirke-Klokken by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Kirke-Klokken that begins with:

Kirke-Klokke! mellem ædle Malme
Mageløs er for mit Hjerte du,...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX aXaX XXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111011 100111110 100111101 110010111 1111100 1011111 11111101 110011100 11100110 101110110 101100110 1111111111 111110111 10001111100 10111100 1011111 111110 1011111 1011001100 11111100 010011010 11110111 1111100010 1111100 101110111 1111100 101001100 1011111 101101110 11111111 111011111 10111011 1011100010 101110101 111110111010 10110100 11110010 1111111111 11111110 111111111
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
Average number of words per stanza: 27
Amount of lines: 40
Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
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; jeg is repeated.
The author used the same word kirke at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Kirke-Klokken by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig: poem analysis

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