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

DEATH OF LEMMINKAINEN.
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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabcXXdXdXeaXXFedcgeeXacXgeXeeeaehiaeccceeeebcXjedklXaXgmdnldfecgXoceoccendXhdcoccndhcnXXgdeaXXaahmmehameaahemeaeehhlXeXechgcXmegaeoahcdgeXdceceececXmcephpXnegXlaeXdmmdXchecdXnXepedmemeeehXeeekgmgogncdjlafqdmeXaajcddmeXepddecXhXeccXXeddmhaoekXXmelggeeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,491,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101000 10001010 10111010 10111010 10101011 00100010 10101000 10111010 10101110 10111010 00101010 00101010 001110101 10101000 11101000 10111011 10100010 11111010 10101010 11100110 10101011 10111010 10101010 10101011 10101011 00101010 00111110 10100011 1010100 0010110 10110010 10001110 11101010 11101011 111010010 10101111 11111011 11101011 11101110 1010010 11101110 11101110 10101111 10111010 10101110 11001010 1010010 10001011 10101011 11100010 10101110 11111010 00110110 10101010 10101011 10001100 10101010 11111010 11101010 10101010 10110110 11111010 00101011 1010110 10101010 11101010 11101010 101001100 10100110 11111010 10100110 11101010 01110110 10101010 10101110 11111110 10101100 11101010 1001010 11111011 10111010 10100110 11101110 10111110 11101010 11101010 10100111 10111010 10101110 11101000 11101010 10101110 10111111 10111011 00100010 00101010 10111010 10101110 11101110 10101010 10100011 010111110 10101010 10101010 10001011 10101010 10101011 10001010 10100010 101110010 10111110 10111110 10101010 10101011 10111010 10100010 10111010 10101011 11101010 10111010 10101000 100111010 01111010 01111010 11011010 10101010 011011000 11101010 10111010 101110100 10101010 01101010 10100110 11101010 10101010 10111010 11101010 11000010 00101010 10101010 10101110 10101010 10100111 10111010 10101010 001010010 10101010 00101011 10101010 101010100 100100010 10001010 10111011 10101011 11111010 11101010 10111010 10101010 11101110 11111010 10101010 11100010 11100110 10011111 10101010 10101010 11111010 11111110 10111110 10111110 1101010 01111010 11101010 11101010 10111010 10101010 10101010 10111010 10101010 11101011 01101010 10111010 10111111 10101011 10101010 10001110 10001110 11100011 10101010 10101100 10001010 10101110 01101011 10110110 10111110 10110010 10100110 10110110 10101110 00101010 10001010 10111010 10001011 11101010 10111011 10111011 11110111 10101110 11110010 11101110 10101010 10101011 10110011 00101011 10100010 10101110 10111110 11100010 10101010 00101110 00101110 10101010 10101010 10111010 101010010 100100110 100101100 10101010 1010100 10101011 10101110 11101010 10101100 10101110 10101010 11001110 00111110 11111111 10001011 00100110 00111010 00101110 10101110 00011010 10101000 10101110 10101011 11101010 10101010 11101010 10101010 10100110 11101010 10110010 00101010 10101010 11101010 00101010 00101010 10101010 10111010 10001010 100100011 10101110 00101010 10101000 101001010 10111010 10111000 10101110 10101011 10001010 10101100 10100010 10111110 11101010 11101011 11111011 10101010 10101010 10101110 10101010 10101010 00100100 10111010 11101010 00100100 11101110 10111010 10100100 10100011 10100010 10101110 11111010 11111010 10101010 10100010 101011100 10101000 10100010 10101010 10101011 10101110 10111010 101001010 101100010 10001010 10001010 10101110 11111010 10001011 11001010 11100010 00111010 10101011 11001010 10101011 101001010 101101110 00111110 10101000 00101000 10111011 11101011 10101010 10101010 10101110 10101110 10101010 101001010 10001010 10101000 10101010 101010010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 101001010 10100011 10001010 10101010 11101110 10101010 10101010 11101100 10111010 00111010 00101010 11101011 10111110 1010100 10101110 00100100 00101110 01111110 11111010 11001010 10101010 101011010 10101010 10101010 00111011 00101010 10101000 10101010 10101010 101010101 10101010 101001010 10001011 10101010 101001110 10101010 100111011 0010100 10101100 10101010 10101110 111010101 11101010 101001010 00101110 10101110 11101010 11111100 11111110 10111010 10100100 10100100 10100010 10101110 10111010 10100010 11101110 0010010 10001110 00101111 11111110 11100110 10101000 10101000 10110010 10101011 10111010 0101110 01001010 10101010 10101011 0010010 00101111 00101010 00101110 10111010 10100100 10101110 10101111 1010010 10111000 100111000 10101010 10011011 00101010 10101000 11101010 0010010 00100011 00101111 10101010 00111010 11100011 00101000 10100010 10001010 10110110 11101110 10100110 10101110 11011110 01101010 01101010 111110110 10111010 001010010 10101010 10001010 0010100 10101111 11110111 11111110 10111010 11101010 11111010 11101110 10101010 0011010 00101110 10111010 10001010 0010100 10101000 10100010 0010010 00101011 00101011 10001110 10101010 10101110 10100110 0010100 10111011 1101110 10101000 11001010 10101111 00101010 10100010 00101010 1110010 01001010 11111110 11111000 11100010 10100110 01111110 101010100 111010100 10101000 10101000 0100101 0010010 00110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 8147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1400
  • Amount of lines: 493
  • 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; to, over, of, greet, ye, thy, let, your, windows, saw, her, golden, no, in, o'er, silver, friendly, sang, give, his, thee, i, come are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, over, through, greet, let, where, for, while, glided, in, saw, doff, don, here, long, when, should, if, o'er, sang, spread, underneath, give, on, open, i, with, did, come, from, throws, there, shoot, thus are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mistress, silver, friendly are repeated).

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

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