Poem Analysis of Parodi by Poul Martin Moller for close reading

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

Der var en Tid, da Jens var meget større,
Vemodig han 'Da jeg var lille' sang;...

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Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX XXXX bXbX cXcX dcXX XeXe dXXX XXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1111111101 1001111101 11011111 1111011101 11101101 11011111 11111011 1111110110 1100110101 11101011 111101001 11101111 111100111 11111111 1110010111 1111111101 111011111 11011111 111110111 1101110001 1111111110 11111101 111011000 1101011111 11111101 11111011 1111110111 11111011 111111110 11011110 1111100010 111111010 111111100 11111111 11111110
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
Average number of words per stanza: 32
Amount of lines: 35
Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; var, han, den, hver, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words da, den are repeated.
The author used the same words han, da at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Parodi by Poul Martin Moller: poem analysis

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