Poem Analysis of Vi Ere Syv by Emil Aarestrup for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Vi Ere Syv that begins with:

Et muntert Barn,
Som aander let, er rund og rød,...

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Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXb XcXc XdXd XdXX XXXX XeaX XdeX fXXX dXXb XXXX XXcX XXff XXXX acXc fXfX fXaaX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101 11010111 1111111 110111 1111100 10111 111010 11011 111110 11111 11011111 11111 11111 10011 11111001 10101 10011011 11101 0011011 0001100 01011000 11111 111011101 11111 01000110 1110000 101111111 11111 11111 1101 1100010 110110 1110011 11011 10011101 101111 011101 110111 111111010 100101 1111101 1111111 110111011 10011 11010100 110011 111111 110111 111100 11011 1111101 111101 11000111 111101 1101100 110111 1101111 11011 11011111 1101101 1001101 11111 11111 110101 0110111 1101110 1111111 1111111 111101
Amount of stanzas: 17
Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
Average number of words per stanza: 23
Amount of lines: 69
Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d, er, de, min are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words som, de are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word syv at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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Vi Ere Syv by Emil Aarestrup: poem analysis

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