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

LEMMINKAINEN'S LAMENT.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a XXXbbcdXdefbeabbbbbbbdXcghibXXcdccgjccgcccgacXXdkagdXeXbXXlbbdehXbXdcgbhecgdhXXXdahhXcgmXblXeedbXnnXcggbfddfblXXebchichdbcbglcXggdagdbkebbccXbXXbbbbedXXgbhbbbXXcbdbXgkbXbXccXbnhXdgXdbgcloXcccejghcXhXeXnceEpXXhXegpEXdcjqmgdbdXgcbbgbbbbbXXXekXgceelkgebcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,444,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100001 00101010 10101000 10111000 10101010 10101010 10100110 10100010 10101000 10101010 10101010 10101010 00101010 10111010 10111001 10111010 10101110 10001010 101110100 10101010 10100010 00101010 10101010 10111010 10101010 00101010 10011110 10001010 10101010 10011110 10101010 00111010 00110010 00110010 10101110 11011011 01101011 00101010 10101110 11011011 10110110 01111010 10101110 11011011 01100011 10101010 10101010 10101110 11101010 00101110 10111010 10011010 11111010 10111010 10111010 10100010 11101010 10101010 1010101 10011011 01101010 01101010 10111010 10101010 10101110 10101100 10000010 11101000 10101010 11101010 10111010 10101010 10101010 10101110 10101110 11111010 10001010 10101110 00100010 10101000 10101000 11101010 11101010 11101110 10101110 10111110 00101010 10001010 10001010 11101010 00101010 10101011 10100011 10001010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10111010 10111010 10001101 10100100 00101010 10111010 10111110 11101010 10101010 11100010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10100011 10111110 10101000 10101010 10110010 101010010 10101010 00101010 10101010 10101010 1011010 10111010 10101010 10101010 10101011 10100011 10111110 10101000 10111010 10101110 10011010 11111110 10110010 10101010 10101010 10101011 01101010 10101110 10101110 01101110 10101010 10101010 10101010 10011000 10101010 10101010 11101110 11101111 00101010 10111110 10001010 10111110 10101000 10101110 00111010 00101010 10101010 10100010 00101010 10111000 10101000 10101010 101001010 10101010 10111010 10101000 10111110 10111010 10101010 1010111 10101110 00101100 00101010 10001010 10101000 10101010 10101010 11101010 10101100 10001010 10100011 11101000 11101111 11101110 111011101 10101010 11101011 10101010 1011101 00101110 10101110 00100110 10111110 10111111 10101010 11101010 10111010 10111110 10111110 11101010 10111010 100111010 11111010 10101110 10101010 10101110 00101011 10101010 11101100 10101010 10101000 00101010 10100011 10101011 10101110 10101100 10101010 10101010 10101011 10100010 00111110 11101011 11101110 10101010 11100110 11101100 01101110 01111010 11101110 11101110 10101111 11110110 10101110 10111010 10011110 10011110 10011110 10100100 101010010 10001010 11111110 11001010 10101010 11111110 01101010 01101010 11111011 01111110 11111010 11111110 11101010 10101010 10101010 10101011 10101010 10101111 11111110 10001010 11101010 11101110 10101010 11100011 10110110 10111010 10011111 10101010 00100110 10110110 01100010 10111110 11100010 11101010 11111010 10100010 10100010 10001010 10101000 10101000 10101100 11110010 11101110 01101110 10111110 10011101 10011011 10011011 10011011 11111010 11101010 10101010 11101010 10111110 11111110 11101110 11111110 10101110 00101010 11001010 11111110 10111110 10001110 11101110 11100010 11101110 11101110 10111010 11111010 11100101 11101010 00101010 00101010 11101010 10111010 10111010 10101010 10101010 10101110 11011110 10011110 01111010 011110100 10001010 11101000 11101010 11101010 11101010 11101010 00101010 10111010 11111010 11111010 11101110 00100010 10111010 11101010 11111010 11111110 11101110 11110010 101011101 11101010 10111010 10011010 10101010 10101110 10001100 10001010 10101010 10100010 11101010 11111011 10111011 11101010 111010010 110001010 101010110 11101010 10101010 10001010 11111011 11101110 11101111 10101100 10101010 10101011 010110100 00101000 11101010 11001010 1110110 10101010 11101010 101110100 10101000 10111010 11101110 11101110 11111010 11100110 11111110 10001011 11101010 10001111 10101010 1110110 10101010 10111010 10101110 101011100 00100010 10101010 10111010 10101010 11111010 11111110 111001011 11101010 01100110 11100111 101100011 10011010 11101010 11101010 10111010 100100110 11101110 11101010 11101010 11101010 1110101 11111010 01101010 00101010 00100010 11111010 10111010 11101010 10111010 111010110 11111010 11101010 11111010 11101010 10101110 10100010 11101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10111010 10101010 10101010 10101011 11101010 10001010 11100100 10111010 10101110 10101010 10101010 11101110 00101010 10100010 00111010 00101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 7315
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1290
  • Amount of lines: 446
  • 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, her, to, not, win, never, with, rather, have, my, thee, why, this, and, need, them, his, in, for, their, our, can, who are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, at, to, never, will, win, all, there, room, in, thus, quickly, this, why, rather, sad, seven, would, i, need, from, with, when, that, who, long are repeated.

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

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

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