Poem Analysis of Vi Stole Paa Den Hellig-Aand by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Vi Stole Paa Den Hellig-Aand that begins with:

Vi stole paa den Hellig-Aand,
Det giør kun Faa, desværre,...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1111101 11111 10110101 101110 11111101 100111 11011101 110101 10110010 110101 1111101 11111 11011111 11111 111111 1111011 11110101 110001 1100011 111101 1101111 111100 11110101 0111100 11010111 110101 111110 100111 1111101 101111 1101101 110110 11111100 110111 11110101 110001 1111101 110111 110011000 110011 1111111 110111 1011111 111111 11011101 010110 11011111 10101
Amount of stanzas: 12
Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
Average number of words per stanza: 23
Amount of lines: 52
Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; re, og are repeated.
The author used the same word han at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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