Poem Analysis of I Sommer, Da Vi Havde Det Yndige Veir by Christian Winther for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem I Sommer, Da Vi Havde Det Yndige Veir that begins with:

I Sommer, da vi havde det yndige Veir,
Da sang jo for mig baade Lærker og Stær,...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXaaX XXXXXX XXbXXb XXXXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101111101 111111111 11110110 1111111111 1101101011 11110010 100110101 1111011111 101111011 01111011011 111110110 1111101 1011100111 11110011 1111110 1100011111 101101101 110101010 110101011001 1101101101 101101 11111101 1101011111 111011 1101111001 11111111 11011110 110011101 11111111111111 11111010 11111111 1111111100 11110010 1111111101111 1111110101 110110110
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
Average number of words per stanza: 48
Amount of lines: 36
Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; i, og, da, min, du, med, for, det are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word med is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nt, k, d are repeated).

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