Poem Analysis of Juuledöd by Schack von Staffeldt for close reading

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

Ved Juuletid haster en Fader frem,
Han bærer den Lille paa Arm,...

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Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX bXXX bXXX XcXb DXeX DXXf ebdX XXcX XdXX XXaX XfXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1100101101 111111 110111111 110101 110101100 1010111 11011111 111101 111110111 11111011 110111111 010101 1111111101 1001011 100010111 1111001 1101001111 1101001 10011111 110111 110111101 11111 0111111110 1111111 110111101 1011111 1101111111 111101 1101111110 11011011 10111101 1100111 111111101 011101 110111011 0100101 1101101101 11011011 110111011 11001011 11011011111 011111111 1101101101 110111 111111111 0111111 11011101 11001111
Amount of stanzas: 12
Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
Average number of words per stanza: 28
Amount of lines: 48
Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, i, saa, du are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, saa are repeated.
The author used the same word saa at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Juuledöd by Schack von Staffeldt: poem analysis

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