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

WAINAMOINEN'S BOAT-BUILDING.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a bccbddcbacdXBefcdXBghieacfjeciaXXXehibXXicdehjbeeeXifdjekcicXXcdgecbeXXkdcjeegbXiXXXbggceXeXXXcbkallceejebiXcflkalahccddalEDXXcedbcXdlceaXeclelCcdemXeemecndddXXeXjifeeeXleefcebcibXXcXieXeXafiXXbiXXXecikkkoXXnXXXdcdcjXdXXacXXcgXbcbXkXXiXXcdccedXgckiXhbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,461,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1000110 10001010 00101010 10111010 10101010 10111010 11101010 10101010 10101010 11101110 10111010 10101010 10101000 10100010 10000010 10101110 10101010 10101011 10101000 10100010 11101010 00101110 10101110 00101010 00111010 10101010 00101010 11101011 00101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 11101000 11101110 10101110 10100010 10101010 11101110 11101010 10101000 10001010 11101010 10101010 10111010 01111110 10101010 10101010 00100110 11101010 11001010 101011110 10111110 10001010 10111010 10101011 10111011 00101110 00111011 10001010 11101010 11111010 10101000 10001010 10101110 10111010 01101010 11101010 10111010 10101110 10101110 11111110 11011010 10101011 10101010 00101010 11111011 0010110 10111110 10110110 10101010 10111000 10110010 10001010 10101010 11101010 10101010 11111110 11101110 11001010 00100010 10110111 11101110 01101011 01101010 10101000 10100010 10101010 10100011 11101010 11101010 10101011 00101110 00111010 10101010 10101010 10111110 10101010 10100010 10001110 00101010 10100010 10111010 00100011 00111110 10111011 10101010 10111011 10111110 10111010 10101010 10101010 10111010 10101010 10100010 10110010 10101100 10101000 11100010 10101110 10111110 10001010 101010010 10101110 11111010 10111010 10110010 10101010 00101010 00100011 11101010 10101010 10101011 10101010 10101010 10110010 10001010 10101010 10111011 10101011 00100110 10111011 100101010 10101011 10100010 10101010 11101010 10101011 11111010 11101010 0010010 001001110 10001010 0010010 10101010 10101010 10111110 10111010 10101011 10111010 10101010 10100011 1011010 101001110 10001110 10101010 001001110 101001010 1011010 10101110 111110010 100111010 1010010 10101010 10100100 10100010 10100010 1010010 01001010 11101000 10100010 10011011 10101110 11100100 00111010 10001110 10100010 1111110 10110010 10100100 10101010 1101110 10110010 1101001 10001111 0101011 11101010 10111000 11110100 10001010 10101100 10110100 0010010 10100011 10111010 11110011 10101110 1101010 11100110 10111010 10111000 00111111 10001010 11000010 10110100 001001 00101010 11111010 00100100 00100111 10111110 01101110 10101110 10111011 11110100 10101000 10110010 11110100 0010010 1011010 11101011 001011110 11010100 11011111 111010110 11101000 011110010 11101010 00111011 11101010 11110100 10111110 10111110 10101000 10111110 11111010 10101010 100110010 11111010 10110110 111010101 11101010 01101010 11101010 10111010 10111010 10101010 10111010 1111011 11101010 10100100 1010010 10101010 11101010 11101010 10101110 10101010 10010100 10101110 01101110 1111010 101001010 10011000 10101010 10101010 10100010 1111010 10100100 111110010 10101110 10101000 10111010 100111010 00100100 11100010 10111000 10001110 11100100 1010111 10001110 1010010 11101011 10101010 11100010 11101000 1010110 10001110 10001010 10110010 10100011 10101010 10111010 1110100 11100010 11101110 1010100 1111010 11101010 10101010 1110111 1001010 10101000 11111110 11001010 0010100 1101010 01101000 10111011 10101000 11101010 11111010 10110010 10100010 10110010 10101100 00100110 00100010 00100100 10111010 10110010 1010100 10101110 1110010 10110010 11101010 10011011 10101000 01001011 01101110 1010100 10101010 100101000 10101010 11101010 00101010 101110101 01001010 0010010 10111010 10001010 10001010 10001011 00101010 10001010 10001010 10101010 0010010 10101010 10100010 10101010 10101010 10001010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10111010 1010010 10111011 00101010 10101000 11100010 11101010 10001010 10101110 10101110 10100010 10001110 10001010 11111010 11111010 11111010 0010010 0010011100 11100010 10101110 10001010 10100010 11101010 10101011 11101010 11101010 10111011 10101010 10101010 0010010 00100100 10101010 00101010 00101010 00101010 10101010 10101010 00111110 11111000 10001110 11100010 10101010 1010100 11101000 10001110 11111010 10101010 01101010 00101010 10101010 11101010 1010010 11101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 1010100 01001110 10001010 10101000 11101010 00110010 00101010 100101110 01101010 10101110 10101010 10101010 10111010 10111011 10111010 10101010 11101010 0010010 00100100 10101010 10100010 10100010 101100101 11101010 11101010 10111010 11101010 11101010 11100110 01101010 101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 7476
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1316
  • Amount of lines: 463
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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, onward, oak, in, my, and, how, kills, through, tiny, thee, to, never, thy, their, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, beams, who, for, he, to, in, takes, builds, from, sings, when, how, kills, there, tiny, if, still, sang, thus, send, coming, not, sees, those, never, through, few are repeated.

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

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

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