Poem Analysis of Jeg Traf En Skønhed by Sophus Niels Christen Claussen for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Jeg Traf En Skønhed that begins with:

Jeg traf en Skønhed fra Firsernes Dage
lidt sprukken i Gipsen....

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXa XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111111001 110110 1100011010 10010 11010110 111110 111111110 01110 1111111110 11100 1111111110 10110 1110010100 111100 1111110111 11100 110110111 10100 11011111110 110110 11101011111 11011 11111110110 110110 1110111100 11111 1101101111 1101 1101111111 11011 0101011100 111111 110111011 110010 11110011011 01010 111110110110 110110 111101011110 110110
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
Average number of words per stanza: 24
Amount of lines: 40
Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
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; jeg, det, en are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words da, jeg are repeated.
The author used the same words da, hun at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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