This is an analysis of the poem The Kalevala - Rune Xliv that begins with:
BIRTH OF THE SECOND HARP.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcXbabXdebcXaffgXdgabegXgXcdXXgdbagXbhibcfaajbkkXbibgdbbbbdXaiiddXXidlXgfbkcbbcgXlabgmmgXXbmahhmbfXbekbbXdigghcbXXbbcdebbbgggbXXghXbXdXXkgdXXXigjikiXdDifcXkbcdXXiXjgXbbiXifcXafdmcgXdigidXDbXbXXdbXbgXfXXbicgblXgijbdgbkggiXbfbgbbcgXbbdfcXgbcjidXlhlidXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,296,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 10001010 10101110 10101010 00101110 11101011 10101010 01101110 01101000 10111110 10101110 00101010 00100010 00100100 10111010 10101010 10100010 11101010 11111000 11101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10110010 10111010 10001011 11101110 10111011 00101010 00100010 00100100 10111000 00101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101000 10101010 10101010 00100011 00101010 10111010 11101010 10001110 10101110 11101010 10001010 10101011 10101011 11001110 10110010 10100011 10100010 10001010 10000010 10101011 11101010 10101110 11111010 01101011 10100100 10101010 10101010 11101010 10101010 10011010 01111110 10101000 10100011 00100010 10111010 100101000 10101010 10101010 10101011 10100011 10100010 10101110 10111110 100101110 101100010 1010110100 11101010 11111010 10101010 10101110 10100010 10111010 11101010 11101110 10101100 11111110 111110010 10101110 11101110 10101110 11100110 11100110 10101110 01111110 10111010 101000011 10101011 10100010 11111010 11111010 1101010 11111111 10100010 11111010 01111010 10111110 10101110 11101111 11111010 00101110 10101110 11001110 11001010 001010011 10011110 11101110 11011110 010111110 01100010 11101110 11101010 10101110 11111010 10101010 10111110 11101110 1110010 11011010 11101010 111011000 10011000 11101011 11111110 11101010 10111010 11111010 10101000 10101011 10001010 10001010 10101010 10110011 10101010 10001010 10110010 10100010 10101010 10101010 10111110 10111010 10111111 10101010 11111010 10101110 11101011 11101100 10101110 00101010 01111010 11101010 10001110 001001110 11101011 10111011 10111000 10111010 10101010 11111110 11101011 10101110 10101110 10101010 10100010 10101110 10101010 10001110 10100110 00110010 10101010 10001110 10100010 101010100 10100010 11100110 10111010 10100011 00101000 00100010 10101010 10100010 11001010 10111011 10001010 00100100 10101010 10101000 10101010 10101010 10111010 00101010 10101010 101010011 10101010 10101000 00101010 10101011 10101010 10101110 10111010 10111010 11101010 10101011 11101010 10101010 10101011 10100100 10111010 10101010 10111010 11101110 10101110 10101010 10101010 00101010 10101000 1111010 11100110 10100110 10101010 11101010 10101000 10111010 10100110 10111110 10111010 10101110 10100010 01101000 11101110 10101010 100101010 100100011 10101110 10001010 00101000 10111011 10111110 10100010 10100011 10100010 101010010 10001010 00101000 10100010 11111110 10101110 00100010 00101000 10101010 10111010 11100010 00100010 00100010 00101000 10100011 10100010 11111010 10101110 10101110 00100010 10111010 11101011 10101110 10101010 10111010 11101010 11101011 11111110 11111100 11101010 10101010 00100010 00100010 10101110 10101110 11101110 11101010 10101110 00100011 00101000
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4893
- Average number of words per stanza: 858
- Amount of lines: 298
- 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; time, to, of, from, silver, no, for, my, each, and, plays are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words time, in, to, rake, from, heard, that, stand, this, on, gave, never, at, plays, till, as are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases silver, listen connect the lines.
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