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

MAIDEN OF THE RAINBOW.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbcdecbbfbfghbgiXjjXckhfXbcihacebFbcglXgmXXIhdbkfghgXJgdgcbhgggXcjmkbdbXbcbnbcggifgXFIhXjjlogmXJomXgXXdigidlXjlceXXcjcebdcljciXfXfhddddXXjjcfXXkfcckbdfjmmdfhgkcXdgnjFbkdfkamcgXXXhfbbcciccXdgXbjcXfcXggXcfjFXjgjXcbipljFglphBDXbiohXdXLXFqPKgjjggcBDXhXXjcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,279,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100011 100111010 10001110 10101010 10101010 00101010 00111011 10101010 10001010 10001010 00101010 100101010 00101010 10101010 10101010 00111010 10101010 10101000 10101110 00101011 0010100 10101110 10101010 11101110 10101010 10101000 10101010 10101010 11001010 10101010 10100011 10001110 10101010 10001010 10001010 10101110 10101010 11100110 11100111 11111110 10101010 11111001 111100110 10101000 10101010 10101110 11111010 10111010 11111011 11101110 10101110 10101110 001001110 00101000 10101010 00101010 100110011 110010011 10101010 10101010 11101110 1011010 10101010 10101010 11101010 10101010 10111011 11111011 10101010 10101010 10100010 10100010 11101010 10111110 10100110 11111010 10101010 10100010 10101010 10100110 11111010 10101110 111100010 10111110 10111010 10001110 10101010 10001110 10001110 10111010 11111010 11100111 11101110 10100010 10111011 11101000 10101010 10101010 10101111 10101110 10111110 11101011 00111111 10001110 10101010 10111110 11111110 00101011 11100111 11111100 10101010 10101111 11101011 11101011 00111110 10101010 10001010 10101010 10101011 10101011 10101010 10101010 10101010 00101011 10111010 10101010 10101110 10111110 00100110 00100110 00101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10100011 10101000 10101010 10110011 11101010 11111010 00100010 00100010 11101010 10100010 10101010 10011010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 11111010 10101011 10100011 10101010 10101010 10101010 10111010 00101010 10100010 10101000 10101010 10111010 10101011 10101010 10001110 00111010 11001010 11111010 11101010 11101010 10111011 10101011 10100110 11111010 11111100 10101000 10101000 10101010 00100010 100100110 11100010 10100010 10111110 101011100 10101110 10101110 10111010 101010010 10101011 10001010 10111110 10111010 00100010 00101000 10111010 10100011 10001010 10101010 10100011 10101010 10101110 10101010 10101110 10001010 10111010 10101010 10101110 10001011 10101011 10101010 10101010 10111010 10111011 10101110 10101010 10001110 10100011 10101010 10101011 11101110 11101110 11101010 11101010 10101010 10101010 11101010 10110010 11101110 11101010 11101010 11101010 101111100 10001010 10100010 10101011 10101010 10100011 00101011 11101011 10111010 10101010 11110010 11101110 11101010 11101010 10101110 101011010 11101000 101001110 10110010 11101110 11101010 11101010 11101010 101111100 10001010 10100010 10101011 10101010 10100011 10001010 11101011 10101110 11110010 11101110 11101010 11101010 101011111 10101011 11101000 10110010 11101010 11110010 10100010 11101010 10101010 10101000 10101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4675
  • Average number of words per stanza: 826
  • Amount of lines: 281
  • 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; weaving, of, shalt, my, in, maiden, using, not, to, it, day, and, cut, from, this, that, can, been are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, from, thou, sing, till, deftly, using, hastened, works, cut, shouldst, thus, quickly, that, through are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases driven, answered, hitches connect the lines.

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