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

WAINAMOINEN'S SOWING.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a XbcXddebbfXdXbfabXbXddghdXXidcdXbaadXdXXaddXjaXahbaaafbebaakgcldbbafiehdaXcdafXdcahdddXdddedcHBmfndkdjjkemdaXfafdddmoeXddeefcfffbffecdXBkcXcXkfXXccdaXkcXkcmXHkecmoXadaeckaXaddbdceccaehcXfbdeeejbXjdaagbdclXnbdbXcbddbbcggXXXdbbdcdfcdcedcfbhgdgdddddcaHddc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,408,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100010 10111000 00101010 10101110 10101010 10101010 11111010 10101110 10101010 11111010 11101110 11101000 11001110 10101110 11101010 10101110 10001010 10100010 10101110 101001111 10101011 10111010 11111010 11101011 101010010 10110010 00111010 00111010 00111011 10101010 10101011 10001010 00101000 10100011 10011010 10101010 10101011 10101100 10101010 00111010 00101010 10001010 10001010 10101110 10101000 10101011 10101110 10101000 10111010 10101010 10111110 10100110 10101010 01100010 11101110 11101110 10101110 10101010 10111110 11101010 10001010 11100010 10111011 10111011 00101110 10101010 10100010 10101010 10111010 00101011 00101010 10101110 11001010 10101010 101001010 10111010 10101010 10101010 00101010 00100010 10101010 00111110 00101010 10111110 00101110 10111010 10111010 10101010 10001011 10101010 10110110 00101011 00101011 10111010 10001110 10111010 10101011 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101110 10101010 00111010 00111110 01111010 11101010 11101011 11101010 10001010 11110000 1100010 10100110 10011110 10101010 10100010 10101010 00101011 00101010 10111011 10111110 10101010 10100010 10110010 10110010 11111110 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10111010 10001110 10100010 11111010 00101011 10101000 10111010 10101110 11101110 10111010 11111110 10101110 10100010 10101110 11111010 10111000 00101010 10011110 00101010 11101110 11101010 10101010 10110010 00101000 10111110 00111010 11101011 10100110 10001110 10101110 10111010 10111010 00101011 00101010 10101010 10111010 10111011 10101010 10101010 01111010 10101010 10101010 00101110 00101010 10110010 10101011 10101110 10101010 10101010 10011110 10111011 101010010 10001110 10101010 00101110 10001010 00101110 10101010 00111010 10101110 10101010 01101110 00101110 10101011 00101110 001110100 10101011 10101010 101110010 10101010 10101011 00101010 00101010 10001110 10101011 10101011 11101010 1010110 10111010 00111010 10101010 10110010 00101110 11101110 10101010 11100011 10101010 10111010 10101011 10101010 10101010 00100100 11001110 10101110 00101110 10001011 10101010 10101010 10100010 10101010 10101110 11101010 10111011 10101011 10111110 10101010 101001110 1001010010 10101010 1001010 10101110 10110011 10001010 10100011 10101010 10100011 10101010 10101010 10100110 10001110 10111010 10100010 10101010 11101010 10101010 10101011 00101011 10001010 10001010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101111 10101010 00101110 10100110 10100100 00101110 00100110 10101010 10001110 10111110 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101110 10101010 11101111 10101010 10101010 10101010 11101010 11101110 100101000 11101011 10111010 10001110 100001110 10111010 10101111 11101010 10101010 00111010 10111111 10101110 10101110 111010010 10111011 10101010 101001010 10111111 10111110 10101010 10101110 10001110 10001110 10101010 11101011 10001010 10001010 10101010 10101110 100101010 11001110 10101110 10111010 00101010 00101010 00101110 10101110 10101110 10001110 10110010 10110010 10101110 10001010 10101010 10001010 00101010 00101010 10100010 11101110 00101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10100010 01101110 01111010 10111110 11100010 11101010 10101010 10001110 10001010 00101010 00111011 00101011 00111010 10001011 10111010 10111110 10111110 10101110 10110010 10100010 10100011 10100010 00111010 00111011 00101011 00111010 10001011 10101010 10101110 10111010 10111010 10111010 10111010 10101110 10101010 00101010 10101010 00110011 00101000 10111100 11101110 10101110 10100011 10001110 10101010 10101010 10100010 10101010 10101010 10111110 10001110 10111011 111001111 10101011 10101010 100001011 101010101 10101000 100111011 10111010 11111010 11111111 11101010 11101010 10101011 11101110 101010010 10101010 101000010 10100011 10101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6838
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1211
  • Amount of lines: 410
  • 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; in, to, copper, of, his, has, not, brings, and, let, be, my, from, that, may, sent, how, here, sing, thou, call are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, who, seeds, in, soon, junipers, how, sees, with, sad, if, that, to, nor, scarcely, far, from, on, then, burn, brings, bring, let, thou, holdest, held, quick, found, sing, call, for are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them, copper, it, counsel are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases berries, waited, raking, scattered, arrows, weapons, sowing, ukko connect the lines.

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