Poem Analysis of Den Luft, Hvori Vi Gaae by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Den Luft, Hvori Vi Gaae that begins with:

Den Luft, hvori vi gaae,
Den Jord, vi trine paa,...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXaX XXXXXX XXXXXX XbXXXX XXXXXX XXXXaa ccXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX ddXXXX XXXXXX ddXXbX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111011 11111 111111 110001 111111 11010 111101 101100 1111010 1101110 110111 11100 111101 1111 111100 110110 111101 11111 111101 11111 110111 110110 11111 11111 101110 111101 111111 11011 1111010 1111100 110111 11111 1101110 11101 101101 11101 11110 11111 1100110 1111100 110110 111110 011101 111111 101110 111110 110111 110111 101111 1111 111011 111001 11100 10011 11111 111111 1111000 110110 1111001 11110 110111 111010 11111 111111 11111 111100 111101 111101 1111000 110110 110111 11111 111111 11010 111110 1101100 110101 111111
Amount of stanzas: 13
Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
Average number of words per stanza: 30
Amount of lines: 88
Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
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; den, hans, at are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, paa are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines kke, de, re, rdig are repeated).

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