I am trying to animate a text that I created and saved as SVG. So far, I've only been able to animate the stroke, but that's not what I am trying to achieve. How can I implement animation like the two examples, below?

<http://codepen.io/se7ensky/pen/waoMyx>  

<https://codepen.io/munkholm/pen/EaZJQE>

Here is what I have so far:

```css
.test {
  width: 300px
  /*   margin:0 auto; */
}

.l1 {
  animation: dash 15s 1;
  stroke-linecap: round;
  stroke-miterlimit: 10;
  stroke-dasharray: 300;
  stroke-dashoffset: 300;
  animation-fill-mode: forwards;
  /*fill: none;*/
}

.l2 {
  stroke-dasharray: 300;
  stroke-dashoffset: 300;
  animation: dash 20s linear forwards;
  -webkit-animation-delay: 1s;
  /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
  animation-delay: 1s;
}

.l3 {
  stroke-dasharray: 300;
  stroke-dashoffset: 300;
  animation: dash 25s linear forwards;
  -webkit-animation-delay: 2.5s;
  /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
  animation-delay: 2.5s;
}

.l4 {
  stroke-dasharray: 300;
  stroke-dashoffset: 300;
  animation: dash 25s linear forwards;
  -webkit-animation-delay: 4.5s;
  /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
  animation-delay: 4.5s;
}

@keyframes dash {
  to {
    stroke-dashoffset: 0;
  }
}
```

```html
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 19.0.1, SVG Export Plug-In . SVG Version: 6.00 Build 0)  -->
<svg class="test" version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px" viewBox="0 0 30.1 21.8" style="enable-background:new 0 0 30.1 21.8;" xml:space="preserve">
    <g>
     <path class="text l1" d="M16.5,9.2c-0.2-0.2-0.2-1,0.1-1.5c0.1-0.1,0.2-0.3,0.3-0.4c-1.6,0-3.2-0.3-4.7-0.1C10.8,7.3,9.5,8,9.3,8.9
      c-0.1,0.6,0.5,0.8,0.7,1c0.1,0.1,0,0.2-0.1,0.1C9.5,10,8.7,9.4,9,8.7c0,0,0-0.1,0-0.2c0.3-1.2,1.7-1.8,3.3-1.9
      c1.8-0.1,3.9,0.4,4.8,0.4c0.2-0.2,0.4-0.4,0.5-0.4c0.3-0.1,0.6,0.1,0.3,0.4c-0.1,0.1-0.4,0.3-0.6,0.5c-0.4,0.4-0.8,1-0.5,1.5
      C16.8,9.2,16.7,9.3,16.5,9.2z M12.1,12.8c0.1,0.1-0.1,0.3-0.1,0.3c-0.2,0.3-0.5,0.8-0.8,0.8c-0.1,0-0.5-0.1-0.5-0.1
      c-0.1-0.8,1.5-3.5,1.9-4.2c0.2-0.3,0.1-0.4,0.1-0.5c0.1-0.4,0.9-1.4,1.5-1.4c0.2,0,0.8,0.2,0.7,0.5c0,0-0.1-0.1-0.2-0.1
      c-1.1,0-2.9,3.6-3.4,4.7c-0.3,0.7,0.1,0.6,0.4,0.3C11.8,13,12,12.8,12.1,12.8z" fill="red" stroke="#000" stroke-miterlimit="10" stroke-width="0.5" />
     <path class="text l2" d="M14.4,12.3c-0.2,0-0.3-0.2-0.1-0.2c0.4,0,1.1-0.4,1.5-0.8c0.2-0.2,0.6-0.5,0.5-0.8c0-0.3-0.4-0.2-0.6-0.1
      c-0.7,0.3-1.7,1.3-2,2.2c-0.3,1,0.6,1,1.4,0.7c0.9-0.4,1.7-1,2.1-1.7c0-0.1,0.1-0.1,0.1,0c0.1,0,0.1,0.1,0,0.1
      c-0.5,0.8-1.2,1.5-2.1,1.8c-1.2,0.5-2.8,0-2.1-1.5c0.4-0.8,2.2-2.4,3.1-2.1c0.5,0.2,0.4,0.8,0.2,1.1C16.1,11.8,15,12.2,14.4,12.3z" fill="none" stroke="#000" stroke-miterlimit="5" stroke-width="0.5"
      />
     <path class="text l3" d="M17.3,13.6c-0.2,0.2-0.1,0.5,0.4,0.4c0.6-0.2,1.5-0.9,1.5-1.6c0-0.3-0.7-0.6-0.9-0.7c-0.2-0.1-0.3-0.3-0.4-0.4
      c-0.1,0.2-0.3,0.5-0.5,0.8c-0.1,0.1-0.3,0-0.2-0.1c0.3-0.5,0.6-0.9,0.6-1.1c0.1-0.9,1.7-1.7,2.6-1.7c0.5,0,1,0.3,0.7,0.8
      c-0.1,0.2-0.2,0.3-0.4,0.4c-0.1,0-0.2,0-0.1-0.2c0.2-0.2,0.3-0.6,0-0.6c-0.4,0-1,0.2-1.3,0.4c-0.4,0.2-0.7,0.4-1,0.9
      c-0.3,0.3-0.2,0.6,0.1,0.8c0.8,0.5,1.8,0.8,0.9,1.8c-0.4,0.5-1.1,0.7-1.7,0.9c-0.2,0-0.7,0.1-0.9-0.1c-0.1-0.1,0-0.3,0.2-0.5
      c0.1-0.1,0.3-0.3,0.6-0.3c0.1,0,0.1,0.1,0,0.1C17.5,13.4,17.3,13.5,17.3,13.6z" fill="none" stroke="#000" stroke-miterlimit="5" stroke-width="0.5"/>
     <path class="text l4" d="M23.6,10.2c-0.2,0.1-0.8,0.1-1.4,0.2c-0.2,0.3-0.3,0.5-0.3,0.6c-0.4,0.7-0.7,1.4-0.7,1.7c-0.1,0.5,0.2,0.8,0.6,0.6
      c0.4-0.2,1.3-1,1.8-1.7c0.1-0.1,0.2,0,0.1,0.1c-0.2,0.4-1,1.2-1.6,1.6c-0.4,0.3-1.3,0.6-1.5-0.1c-0.1-0.3,0.1-0.9,0.4-1.5
      c-0.1,0.1-0.2,0.3-0.5,0.6c-0.1,0.1-0.2,0-0.1-0.2c0.4-0.5,0.7-1,0.9-1.2c0,0,0.1-0.2,0.3-0.5c-0.1,0-0.2,0-0.3,0
      c-0.1,0-0.2-0.1-0.2-0.3c0.1-0.2,0.4-0.2,0.6-0.2c0,0,0,0,0,0l0.6-1.1c0.3-0.5,0.3-0.6,0.5-0.7c0.2,0,0.4,0,0.5,0.1
      c0.1,0.1,0,0.4-0.1,0.5C23.2,9,23.1,9,23,9.1l-0.6,1l0.2,0c0.4,0,0.7-0.1,1.1-0.1C23.9,10,24.1,10.1,23.6,10.2z" fill="none" stroke="#000" stroke-miterlimit="5" stroke-width="0.5"/>
    </g>
    <g></g>
    <g></g>
    <g></g>
    <g></g>
    <g></g>
    <g></g>
</svg>
```

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