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

WAINAVOINEN'S LAMENTATION.
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  • Rhyme scheme: X abXXcdeeeafghiaejcijiXiXjjXajkjXjjjhXkhjhieaXXiadXjdcjfiaEXjejcjaigieeldcjXdljaacXminjefoiejijhgXhjjjdXmdicjefXiXXiXidilcicmbiafijljjjcjikXmXfoaniXXXXeiXXafXcmjXiaaifmjjjjXcaXXXajacadambfXgfodiajlicaiiXiiiiijjXaabXbXXEXeeeeieefioiiaocooXijiicooiajbXajj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,261,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10001000 11101010 10111010 00111010 10101000 10100010 10001110 10101010 11101110 10101011 10101010 10101110 11101010 00111110 10101010 10000011 10101010 10001010 00101110 11001110 11100110 10101110 11110010 11001110 10011010 10101110 10110010 10101010 10101010 00110010 10101011 10001111 10100100 11011110 10111010 10101110 10100011 10101000 00111011 10101011 10111010 111111011 10001010 10111010 00101010 001100010 00101010 10111110 10111010 10101010 10111011 10101010 10101010 100001011 10001110 11101011 10111010 10111010 00100010 101010010 10111110 11111010 10101010 11101011 10101010 11101010 10100010 10100010 00101010 10001010 11101010 10100111 10111010 10101010 10101010 10101010 11111011 10101011 10101110 10101011 10101011 11111110 00111010 00101010 101100010 00111011 10101010 10101110 10001010 10001111 11101010 10101110 10101110 10001010 10101010 10101110 00101010 00101000 00111010 10001010 10111010 10101010 10101010 11101000 10101010 10001010 11111110 00111010 10001010 11101010 11101010 11101111 11101010 10110010 10101000 100111110 00011110 10101110 10111110 01101110 11001110 11101010 11100010 11101010 11101010 11111010 11101010 101011110 11101010 11101010 11111010 11101011 10101110 10100010 10100011 10111010 11100010 10001010 10111111 11101110 11101110 10101000 10111010 11101011 10101010 10110111 10111110 10110100 10111010 10101000 10101000 10101010 11100010 10100100 10101111 10111010 10101010 10110110 10101010 00100010 00101010 00111010 10111110 10001010 10111010 10111110 10101011 01111110 10111010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10100100 10110010 10101011 10100100 10101000 10101010 10001010 100101110 10011011 11001010 10100011 10001010 10111010 11101010 11111110 10101110 10111110 11110010 11101010 11101111 01101010 10011110 11111010 11101010 10111110 11011010 10110010 10101110 10101010 11101110 10010010 10011010 01111010 10111110 01111110 11101110 10101110 00101010 00100100 10001010 10101010 10100010 00101000 11101010 11100011 10111010 00100010 10101110 11101010 11101010 10111010 10101010 11111110 11100010 11100110 10111010 10111010 10101011 10101010 10011010 10101011 10111011 11111110 10101111 10101011 10101110 00101010 00111110 10101110 110001110 11111110 10101111 10101011 10101110 11100011 10101010 11101110 11100110 11100010 11101010 10101110 11101010 00101010 10101010 10110010 11101010 10101010 100111010 10110010 10011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4321
  • Average number of words per stanza: 768
  • Amount of lines: 263
  • 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, wept, on, and, to, angles, make, thy, for, thee, not, me, through, had, her, how, my, this are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words far, that, where, on, to, angles, not, make, from, i, drew, through, had, promised, what, for, how are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, me, thee are repeated).

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

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