Poem Analysis of Tanken by Adam Oehlenschläger for close reading

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

I Poesien steds arbeider Tanken;
Men ogsaa den bør holde sig i Skranken,...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaa
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 110110010 1101111110 11011100110 1110001000 11011111100 11110101110 111111001 11011111 111010100 11011111010 110001011 11011101100 110110100 11011011100 110111101 111011111
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
Average number of words per stanza: 28
Amount of lines: 16
Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; ei is repeated.

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Tanken by Adam Oehlenschläger: poem analysis

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