Poem Analysis of Brylluppet I Kana by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Brylluppet I Kana that begins with:

Brudgom taler til Bruden sin
Om Kager og Kalvene fede,...

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Rhyme scheme: abXbX XXXb aXXc XXXX XdXX eXeX XXXX bcXX fXfX aXaX dXXX gXgX XXXX dXXX XXXX XXdXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10101101 1101101 10001101 11011011 11011011 10101110 1101110 1011100 110011 10101111 1111101 111101 111111 10101111 11001011 11110111 11001011 1011100 1111011 10111101 111100 10101101 1101100 110111 1111110 101111 1101111 10101111 110111 11111 111101 11101101 1111111 1011101 1101110 10101101 11011100 10001001 1111110 10111111 11011100 10001111 111111 10111100 1101111 111101 1111000 1110111 11011110 10001100 1101111 1011111 1111111 10101111 1101011 1100110 11111100 1000111 1101011 0111011 111101 10100100 11110001 111111 111111 11011011
Amount of stanzas: 15
Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
Average number of words per stanza: 26
Amount of lines: 76
Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, re, det are repeated.
The author used the same word tjenerskabet at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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