Poem Analysis of Naar Du Er Træt by Hans Vilhelm Kaalund for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Naar Du Er Træt that begins with:

Naar du er træt, naar Du er kjed
af Verden og dens Smaalighed,...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXXX aXXX XbXX XXaX cXXX bXXX XcXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10011001 11011100 1111111 111110 110111010 11010101 1111111 1110111 11111001 1111111 11111001 0111101 111110010 11011101 11110111 1101011 1011011 1111111 11111111 11100 10011101 0101111 11111100 110111110 11010011 1110110 1100111 11001100 1111111 11110001 11010111 1101011010 11101001 1011101 11110101 1011101
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
Average number of words per stanza: 27
Amount of lines: 36
Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
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; dig is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words en, hvad, hvor 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 j, m, v, n are repeated).

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