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

WAINAMOINEN'S HARP-SONGS.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a BcdXaXeefgaebgaXXfgaeXcaggheiaggXafaecaceefdjachXcebaaGXdiiaikGgXXagXlcabefaafiXaXgbXafmXfacaXaXXagXcafcaffXadfgXfiadXcadaadgXeghecXXagacaagXaaagaaabcgXeecaXcBefnfcgeaagfgaeafaaeoXjbcfcffbaXfaabdldXeadldXXdaXgjdXOXcajdkjbcOXeendjafefimalao
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,239,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100011 10001010 00101010 100101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10111010 00101011 00101010 10110010 11101010 10111110 11100110 00110010 01101110 10100100 10100010 10101010 10101010 00111110 11101110 10100010 10001110 10100010 10101110 110010010 10111110 100100010 10111011 11101110 10100010 10101010 10100010 10001010 101001010 100101110 101010010 10101111 101001110 10101010 10101011 10101010 101010011 10111011 11101110 11101110 11100010 00101000 1001010 10011011 1010010 1111110 11111010 10100010 00101000 1001010 10001110 10101110 10101010 10101110 10100011 10100010 00111010 00101000 10111011 11110010 10101010 10101000 10011010 10100010 111110011 11101010 00101010 00111010 10101110 11100010 10101110 10111011 10100101 10101110 00101000 10100010 00101110 10100010 10101010 10101010 10101011 10101010 10101010 01101110 11101010 01101110 10100110 10011010 10011010 10110010 10101010 11101010 10101000 11111010 10100110 10101110 10101010 10101010 10100010 11101010 00101000 10101010 10101010 00101010 00111010 00101011 10101011 10101010 10101110 01101010 10101010 10100010 10101010 10101011 10101010 00101010 10001010 10001010 00101000 10101110 10111110 10111010 10101110 10100010 01101000 10100011 10001110 10101010 10111110 00101010 01101010 10101010 11101010 10101000 11101010 11101010 00100010 10111010 110011110 10100010 10101010 10001110 10001010 10001010 00101000 10101110 10101110 10100010 10101010 101001010 101110100 10001010 11111010 10101110 11101110 10101110 10100010 11011010 1011101 10101010 10100110 10100010 10100010 10001110 10001011 10111010 1010110 10101010 10101011 10101010 00101110 11001010 10001010 10101010 101001010 10001010 10101010 10111010 10110010 10101010 10111110 11100011 00101000 001101010 00101010 10101110 11101010 11101011 10101010 11101111 00110010 10101010 10101010 10101011 10101010 11101111 00110010 10111000 11101111 00101010 101010100 10101010 10101011 11101111 00101100 10111010 101110100 10101010 10101010 10101011 11101111 10111011 11101010 00101110 10111010 10111010 101110100 10101010 10101110 10101110 10100011 00111010 00110010 10001010 1001110 100001011 100001011 10101011 10100110 10101010 00100011 10111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4039
  • Average number of words per stanza: 694
  • Amount of lines: 241
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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, to, came, and, from, some, their, wept, than, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, to, came, from, some, never, with, fall, as, played, wept, at, part are repeated.

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

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