Poem Analysis of Var I Ikke Galilæer by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Var I Ikke Galilæer that begins with:

Var I ikke Galilæer,
Kaldte eder Pharisæer...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXaXX bXXXXX XXXXXX XXXccX XcXccX ccXXXX aXXXXX XXXcXX XXdXXX XXdXXX bbeXXe XXXXXX XXXXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111100 110100 11111 111111 1111111 1110110 101001 1110110 101111 1101101 111101 101111 1111101 111111 101001 111111 111101 111111 1111101 1011101 111111 11101110 11111110 110101 110110 101111 1111101 1111110 1010110 11110 1011110 1001010 111101 1011110 1110101 1111 111011 1011110 1101101 1011101 1010101 111101 10011110 1110110 111111 1110111 11011 0111101 1101100 10111010 1011101 11110 1011111 10110 1000011 10111 110101 111111 111111 1111 1010111 1110111 101011 10111100 1011111 111011 101110 10111110 111101 11001110 1111110 1011101 111111 1111101 1100011 1111110 11101000 101111
Amount of stanzas: 13
Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
Average number of words per stanza: 34
Amount of lines: 84
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:
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; i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines er, rker, de, sten, ret, ier are repeated).

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Var I Ikke Galilæer by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig: poem analysis

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