Poem Analysis of Kunstens Hovedkræfter by Adam Oehlenschläger for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Kunstens Hovedkræfter that begins with:

I Fald de Hovedkræfter du vil kiende,
Som Kunstnerne til deres Værk anvende,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 110100011 110110110 1111101110 11111100 11111011 0100111101 1111010111 1000011111 111110111 1101111 111111101 11011111 111110111 110111110 11011111110 110111110 111111101 1111110111 1101011110 1100111110
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
Average number of words per stanza: 32
Amount of lines: 20
Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; til, snart, smag are repeated.
The author used the same word og 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 de, sen are repeated).

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