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

WAINAMOINEN'S HAPLESS JOURNEY.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a bacdeefbbXfccXcgdXcXdehXiaXfjddffhXXXjkabfahhcfddbkdllddXfdjXbafhXealdddfdfjXlkcbbbXehkdeddehehXfcfXXbjaXiXjXFjdXdelfddXchXcclXXmhXgdXcXXcfjehcammgfbXjecafihlkfeXfkhgcblXnfnXflXXXdchXchbddeXeaXfbfXddfgcdXdddXccXiXeXXeddfnbXbhiXXFXXedfheXfbXfehdXfXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,249,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10001010 10001110 10101010 00100011 00101010 00101011 00101010 10111010 10101010 10101010 101010100 10101010 10101010 10101010 10001011 00101010 10101010 10110011 100101000 11111010 10101100 101001010 11101110 10101010 10101000 10101010 00101010 10001000 00100010 10101011 10111010 10101010 10111110 10101010 11101010 11111010 10001010 100001010 10001011 11111110 10001110 10101010 10101010 11101010 10101010 10101010 10001110 11101010 10001010 00101010 10101010 10111110 11101010 00100010 00110010 10101010 10101110 10001010 00100010 10111010 10101011 10111000 10001010 10110110 10101010 11111110 11100110 10110010 11101010 11101010 10101110 00111110 10101011 10111010 00101010 10100010 10101011 11101100 10001110 10101011 10101010 10101111 101010101 10001110 10000100 10100011 101010010 10101011 10101011 10111010 10101010 110000110 11110010 10101010 10110010 10100010 00101000 00111010 10101011 10101010 10100100 10111000 10111010 10101011 10111010 10101000 1011011 11101000 11100111 11111010 10001110 11101011 10111010 10101000 10101010 11101010 00101110 10111010 10111010 00111010 10111010 1011010 11001010 11101000 10100011 00101010 11101110 01101000 10101000 10111010 10111010 10101010 10101010 10101010 0010010 00100010 00100100 10101000 10111010 11101010 01111011 10101010 11101011 10011110 10101010 11101010 11101010 10111010 10001010 11001010 10101011 101110101 10111010 00111010 11101010 11100010 10101010 10001011 10101010 00101110 10110010 10101010 10101000 10111010 00110010 11111010 11101010 10111011 10111010 11111010 00101000 01111111 10101110 01111111 10101110 10111010 10101010 100101000 00101010 10101010 10101011 10101010 10101010 10101000 10101010 10101110 11111010 00101010 10001010 10101110 10101000 10101011 11101010 10101000 10111010 11101010 10100010 10111000 11101010 10101010 00100010 00101010 10101011 10101010 10111000 10101010 10111010 10111010 10111000 10101110 10101010 10011000 10101111 10101110 10111110 10110100 10101000 11011010 10111010 10101010 00101010 11101011 10101010 11101110 10101110 10001010 10101011 11101000 10101000 10001110 11111000 10101000 11111010 11111010 10101110 00111111 00110010 11110011 10101010 10101010 10101010 00100010 10110110 10101110 10001010 11101000 10101010 10101000 10100100 10101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4077
  • Average number of words per stanza: 707
  • Amount of lines: 251
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; to, of, land, onward, and, spies, at, his, upon, through, thus, he, thou, thee, slain are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, on, near, from, ready, spies, at, through, better, in, swiftly, strikes, that, thus, slain are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines billows is repeated).

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

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