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

CAPTURE OF THE FIRE-FISH.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbcdeXfeghXcibeicjgekebfgeBigcgeegggiiXiBgklmeecBgeegegcinceehaoXXiXecepgcXeeiaXebbcXigeXeieledbelgXepXleeXbeeXeXeeeehgiepXelXeooebdXkobdXnbXeiXXceXoeeekecgegXcddcceXeXjeXedeeakXeXcckhgciknigbgddbckeedcXXqcebfdecclXXXcplXeceedmkebpcpXXXbpbbeccXXqdbdbnl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,319,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1000101 10000010 00101010 10101010 10101011 10110010 10100100 10101111 10111011 11101011 1001110101 10101010 11100110 10111010 10100010 10111011 10101110 10101111 1001010 00100111 11101010 101011010 00101010 1011110 00111011 10111110 10101010 00101010 10111110 10101111 10111010 11001010 11101010 10000010 10001110 10101110 10111110 10111010 10001110 10101010 10101110 00101010 10101110 10101010 10100011 10101010 10101010 10001110 10110010 00101010 10101010 10101010 10111010 10111000 110011011 10111011 10111010 10011110 111110110 11101010 11101111 10101011 111110101 10111011 10101010 10101000 11111000 11101010 11101010 00101010 10100011 10111010 011100011 11111011 010111010 111001100 10111111 101010010 10111110 111010101 10101000 10100010 10101010 10101010 11101010 10111000 11101010 10101011 10111010 1110101010 10101110 10101010 11101010 100111111 10101010 101010110 10001010 10101110 11001010 10100011 10111010 11101110 10101111 11111010 11101111 10101110 10101110 10111010 10101010 10101110 10101110 10101100 10101010 10001010 10101010 10001010 10101010 11101111 10101011 10011011 00101010 00101011 00110011 00100100 10111010 10111010 10111010 10100010 00101010 10101010 10101110 11101010 10101110 11100111 10001110 10101110 11101010 10101110 11100111 10101010 10100010 11101000 11101110 00100110 11101111 10101000 11101010 11101110 00101100 10101010 01001110 10101010 00100010 10001010 10101010 10001011 11101001 11101110 00100111 11101010 10111110 10001110 11101010 10001010 100010010 00110010 10111010 10101010 10101011 101011010 10100010 10101000 11110110 10111010 10111110 00111110 111010101 11101010 01101001 10110010 00101011 10111010 00100011 11101010 101010101 10101011 10111010 10101010 10101011 00110010 10111010 10101010 10001010 101010010 10101010 001001010 11100010 10001010 101010101 010010011 00111010 111010010 00100011 10001010 10101000 10100011 10101010 1000111 10100110 1011111 10001010 10101010 10101010 10100011 10101110 10110100 10101000 10101110 10100011 101010111 10001010 10111000 10111110 101011010 10100010 11101011 00101010 10110110 00110110 11001110 01101110 00111011 001001011 00101011 10101010 11101010 101010010 10001010 00110011 00101010 10001110 00110010 00101010 101010011 00100100 00101000 10001011 10001110 10101010 10101110 100101010 101010110 10101010 10101000 10101010 10100010 10101010 11111110 11111010 11111110 11101110 10111000 11111010 11101010 11101010 11100100 11100011 11101011 10001110 01101011 00101111 10101110 101011010 10111110 10101010 1110100 11101010 11110011 00101011 10101010 11101011 10101110 11101110 10110100 00111010 10101011 10100010 10111110 10101010 10101011 10101010 101001010 10101010 10101010 10111010 10100111 11101111 11101010 00100011 00100010 01111111 10111010 11101010 101010110 10100010 10101110 11100010 00111011 00110010 11101010 11011010 111111 10101010 11101011 11101010 10111000 101110010 10100110 11101010 11101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5367
  • Average number of words per stanza: 963
  • Amount of lines: 321
  • 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, and, it, from, never, my, finds, burns, onward, to, thus, come, thou, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words quick, quickly, let, made, from, where, drew, using, finds, to, burns, in, thus, come, stills, brought are repeated.

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

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