Poem Analysis of Hvor Gærdet Ikke Er Sidest by Sophus Niels Christen Claussen for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Hvor Gærdet Ikke Er Sidest that begins with:

Hvor Gærdet ikke er sidest,
hvor Tjørnene er stridest,...

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Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XaX XXX XXX XXX bXb bbb aXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111010 11010 11101010 111011010 11111 11110110 11101001 111010 1101111 11011010 111111011 1101111 1111010 1001001 110111 111000 111011 101111 1101101 1100111 111100 1111110 1101111 110101 1101110 1110101 1011111 110110110 111111 1111110 1111110 11001110 111110100 1111111 1111001 1110101 11011010 11010001 111010 0111010 0101010 1101110 11011111 111111 1111010
Amount of stanzas: 15
Average number of symbols per stanza: 85
Average number of words per stanza: 17
Amount of lines: 45
Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; er, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hvor, og, de are repeated.
The author used the same word den at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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