Poem Analysis of Jesu Barndom by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Jesu Barndom that begins with:

I Nasaret der var saa smukt
Paa Brinkerne de steile,...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX XXXXaXX XXXXbXX XXXXXXX cXXXXXX dbXXXdb XXXXXaX XXXXeXX XeXXXXX XfXfXcX XXXgXXX XXcXggb cXXXXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11001111 11001 11110101 1111 1111011 111100 11111 111010 11011 11111110 11110 11110011 11011100 11111 11011100 110011 1110111 011101 111010 01111 11111 11011100 111111 1111111 111111 11111111 11011101 11111 11011111 11111 111111 01111 111111 11001111 111111 0101111 1111010 11010011 1111 1101100 1110101 110110 1101111 1100100 11011101 1101110 11111101 1101111 111110 1111101 110101 1111100 111101 1111111 11111111 110111 101110 11011 111101 111110 1100111 11011101 111100 11111100 1110110 1111101 1101010 11001111 111111 1101010 1111011 110011 11011111 11111 10011101 1111100 100111 1111101 11111 111111 111100 11011101 1100011 1011010 11111101 111111 11111101 100111 11111101 1111100 110111
Amount of stanzas: 13
Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
Average number of words per stanza: 41
Amount of lines: 100
Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, gik, i, saa, vi, for, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words som, i, saa are repeated.
The author used the same word vor at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines st, r are repeated).

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Jesu Barndom by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig: poem analysis

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