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

THE SAMPO LOST IN THE SEA.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a XbcXdecXcffbXXXgcXXcXbcfXXbXhhXafiXbfjiXXckhfXXhjXfXcXXXhjXXXegXXXcXXXchjhhccchfcXbjicfXbfjclfabXckXcfchicblXccgXgfdfbXhcfXbefccggikbhccXXchXgcccbXkcgXfkcjXgdXcgXeXXbfebmflhcjXcXXXXXbHhXhXXccXggghkXcXXcXXbjccabXbfcgcchchXXgfffccdaccccXifchXcjXcXGbhCcff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,376,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101001 10100100 10101010 10101110 10111110 101010011 00101010 01101010 01101010 10101111 10101010 10101010 10110010 10101010 01101010 00100100 10001110 10101110 11101000 11101010 10111110 10100010 10110010 10111010 10100010 10111010 10101000 10101010 00100010 11101010 11101010 10111000 10101011 10101010 00101010 10101111 10001110 11101110 11101011 01001010 10101010 10111000 10111110 10101010 00101110 10101010 101000110 10101000 100111011 11100010 10101110 10001110 11101100 10001010 10101010 10101000 10110010 11101010 10101011 10101010 10001010 11111000 10100010 10101010 11111000 11101000 11111010 11111010 1010110 10111000 10101000 00101010 100101011 10101011 10101110 10100010 10101010 10110010 10110010 10011010 10100110 10111010 10101000 10101010 10100010 10101010 10101110 10011010 111001100 11101010 00111011 00101110 10101010 11101010 10101010 00100011 10101010 10110100 00101110 10101010 10101010 10001010 001011010 10101010 10110011 10101110 10101010 10101010 10101010 00111010 10101010 10101110 100101110 10100100 10101010 10100010 11101011 10101010 10101110 10001010 10100011 10101110 10101110 10101010 11101110 10101010 111010010 10111010 10001010 10100010 10110110 10101110 10001111 10111010 00111010 10011110 10101010 00101010 00101010 01101111 10101010 11101010 10101010 11111110 01111010 10101010 10101010 11101000 11100011 11101011 10111010 101001000 10001110 10100011 10101011 11001110 1010100 10101010 10101011 11101010 10111010 10101010 00100100 10101010 10101000 10101010 11000010 10111010 10101010 11001010 11101110 11101010 101110101 11101010 10110010 11101010 0010100 11101010 11001110 10101000 10101010 11100100 11101010 10110010 10101010 10111010 10101010 10111010 10101000 10101010 10101010 10100010 10101000 10101010 10110010 10100010 11100010 11101010 11111110 11101010 11101010 10100100 10100011 11101000 10101000 00111010 11100110 10101110 10111010 101011101 11101110 10001010 00101010 10111010 10100010 00101010 10101010 10101010 00101010 10101010 00101010 00101010 10101010 00100010 10101110 10100010 10100110 10100010 10101010 00110011 00100011 10101010 1010110 00101110 00101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101110 10100011 10100010 10101010 10101110 11111010 10101010 00110100 10001010 10100010 10101010 10001010 10101110 10101011 00100010 00100100 00101010 00100011 00100011 10011010 10101000 10100100 10111000 11101010 11111010 10111011 10100111 11101110 00111011 10101010 10101110 10111111 10111010 10100110 10100110 10101010 11100010 11101110 10101111 10111110 10111010 11101010 10101110 11101110 10101011 10101110 10101000 10101110 10100110 10001010 10101000 11101000 101110010 10101010 10101010 10101010 11101010 10110010 10111010 10110111 11100010 10100100 11101010 00111010 01101010 11101011 10101011 00100110 10101110 10100110 11101010 00101111 00101110 00101010 11100010 10110010 0010100 10111010 10101010 11101010 11111010 11100011 00101110 10100100 10101010 00101110 10111010 00100010 10101010 00111010 10100011 10100100 10001010 10001110 10101010 11100010 10001010 10100010 10101111 10101010 00101011 10101010 10101000 11101000 11101010 10111010 11100110 11110010 11111010 10111010 10100100 00101000 10110010 10101110 10101110 00101010 00101010 11101111 11101110 01111010 00100110 00101010 00101010 10111110 10111110 10101110 10101110 10101011 00100010 10101010 10100100 11101110 11101010 10100110 10101110 10111110 10101110 10111010 00101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1072
  • Amount of lines: 378
  • 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; her, of, with, may, his, for, to, smote, on, waters, and, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words gave, with, look, looked, knew, row, rowed, strongly, saw, tries, in, may, on, not, down, though, smote, from, like, the, and, god, never, drive, freeze, to, send, all, spake, that, be are repeated.

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

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

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