This is an analysis of the poem The Kalevala - Rune I that begins with:

BIRTH OF WAINAMOINEN.
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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcaXdceefebaghXeabaaeeeaiaajbachcXekhHbhheedHdhhkajbfeeeekXbebjaeabehikkahXXedbXdhhlXhdjBddgddmXbBbadjjBabBXajedjdbnafXbhebahddeaaafeoajbbbbbXdaeamXjbaabbbannceeeebblheeabahcchhhameahhemmXamhjabjefhoccmaheiiaaeddaebbmdmaXfbcjcecbdmhedhhaXbhhebaeneXXam
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,262,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101000 00101010 10100010 11100010 00101010 100101100 10001010 00101110 10101110 00100010 00101011 00110010 00101010 10100010 10111010 10101011 100010100 10100010 10101010 10111010 01111010 10101010 00101010 00101110 10110010 101101010 10100011 00111010 11101010 10101110 10110010 10101010 10101010 10100110 10101010 10101010 11101010 10100001 10100110 10111010 11111010 010111010 010111010 10101010 10101011 10011010 10111010 10111010 11101010 10111110 10100101 00111110 10111010 11101010 10101011 00111010 00111110 10110010 00111010 10101110 10111110 01100010 10111010 00101010 10101110 101010010 11100010 11101010 10111110 10100010 11101110 11101011 00101010 00101001 11111010 10111110 11101010 11101000 10101010 10101010 100101010 10101010 10101110 11101110 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 11011110 10111010 10111110 11001110 10111010 10101010 10101111 10100010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10111010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10100010 10101010 10101010 10001010 10110010 11111010 10101110 10101010 10101010 11101010 10101110 10101111 101011010 10101010 10101011 00101010 10111010 10111110 10101010 10001010 101010010 10101110 1001001010 10101010 10100010 10100010 10110010 10101010 00111010 00111110 10100010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10001010 01101010 10101010 00101010 10101010 00111011 00101011 00101011 00111010 10111010 10100110 00100011 00100011 10100010 10111010 00101010 10101110 10001011 00100011 10101010 10100010 10111010 10100010 10101010 10101010 10111010 10100110 100001110 11101110 11101010 10101010 10101110 10101110 10111010 10111111 10111010 10101110 10111110 10101010 10111110 11101110 10100010 10100010 10001010 11100010 10101010 10001011 10111010 10101000 11110011 11101011 10101010 10001110 10001010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10111010 10101010 11101110 00101010 00100010 11111011 11101011 10111010 10101001 11111111 11111011 11111010 00111010 01100010 00101010 00111010 10100010 10101010 10111110 11101010 10101110 10101110 10101011 10101010 10111100 10101011 10111010 10111010 00101010 10111010 11101010 00111010 00110110 10101010 00101011 00100011 11101010 00110010 10101011 10111110 10001010 10101010 10001010 11101110 11101110 10001010 11101010 10100010 110110100 10100011 11111010 10101000 10101010 10111010 10111011 10101011 10101011 10101011 10101011 11101011 11101010 11101000 10100010 10100010 10001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4337
  • Average number of words per stanza: 767
  • Amount of lines: 264
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; of, swam, thou, her, in, one, from, part, she, and, me, take, o, walk, thus, see, to, his, he, swims, years, on are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, with, on, toward, to, as, come, cannot, raised, warmer, shakes, from, lifts, where, had, take, hence, thus, plunges, swims, stands, that are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines maiden, waters, year, me, wander, foot are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase hasten connects the lines.

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  • summary of The Kalevala - Rune I;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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