Poem Analysis of Gud Helligaand, Vor Igjenføder by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Gud Helligaand, Vor Igjenføder that begins with:

Gud Helligaand, vor Igjenføder
Til Børn af ham, som os har skabt,...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX XXaXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXaXX XXXXXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11001100 11111111 11110011 1111111 101110110 10110100 11111111 11111110 1100111 11111110 1101111 1111101110 11111110 10011101 11000101 1101010 11011101 1100111 1101111 11111111 11001110 110111 11010100 1111100 11011101 110101110 11111100 1011111 1011111 11111101 111111 1001001 110101110 11000110 1111111 11011110 10010011 1101111 1101001 101110110 10110100 11111111
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
Average number of words per stanza: 47
Amount of lines: 42
Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d, v, du, vor, r, hvor, den are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words til, v, som are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines des is repeated).

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