Poem Analysis of I Begyndelsen Var Ordet by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem I Begyndelsen Var Ordet that begins with:

I Begyndelsen var Ordet,
Var hos Gud og Gud med Ham,...

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Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXXXX XXXXXbXXX XXXXXXXXb XbXXXXXcX XXXXXXXXX XXXcXXXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11000110 1111111 11101100 1110101 111111 111111 11111 1011100 10111 11011010 1111111 11111110 101111 10111010 11001110 1011111 1011101 11101 11000110 1011111 10111100 1010110 101101 101101 111111 1011111 101110 1110101 1111110 1111111 111111 10111100 1101110 10111 111101 10111 11000100 1010101 10111000 1110111 110111110 0110110 1110111 1111101 11101 1101110 1100011 11101110 111101 11101010 10111110 1110001 11111 11010
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
Average number of words per stanza: 50
Amount of lines: 56
Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
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; var, hvad, det, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words var, skabde are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines vne is repeated).

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