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

THE UNWELCOME GUEST.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a XbXcXXXddXXdXXXaEfghggXgigXgjjXkdgkXidddXXgjcdgjblddamddanXbkgghXHXXMbkgmdblkXcnXXjgljXddXgiggabldggdlkgdXmdgclXdjdagXchidddXmmjiiXcddjdieadXXhjdbXXXddmidXdkXdjccljciXmjjihlmXddhgmidHcbggXXkjmXggXcaXXjXXbXXXjfjXjhjXjXgHfEaHcXXHaOkdcgckdOjcXjjOgddXggjgj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,406,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00101 11111000 10100110 10111000 10101110 10101010 00110100 00101010 11101010 10101110 10101000 10101000 10110010 1010100 10101100 00101100 10100010 10001010 10111110 10101011 00100011 10101110 11101110 10101000 10111010 11101110 11101110 10111010 01101011 10111010 10101010 1010100 10110010 10100010 100010011 11111010 10001011 11101010 10100110 10101010 00101010 10101010 10101000 10101110 10101110 11101010 11101010 10111010 10111010 10101110 10101010 10101010 10101010 11101010 10110010 10101010 10101011 10101010 100111111 11101011 00101010 10101010 10101110 10101011 10101011 10101000 10111010 1010111 11100010 10001110 10101110 10001110 11111010 11101010 11111010 11101110 11100010 10100010 111011000 11101010 10111101 10111010 10111000 10101010 10111110 10101110 10101010 10111010 10111010 10101010 11100100 10101011 10100110 11101010 10111010 11101010 10101010 11101110 10111010 10101110 10100010 11101010 11101110 10101010 10111110 10101010 101011100 10101010 10101010 10111010 11101010 11111010 10111010 10100010 11111010 10101110 00100110 00111110 10111000 10101110 11111110 11111010 10100110 10100110 10100010 10100010 10001010 10100010 11101010 10101010 11100010 11101010 10101010 10001010 10001010 10001010 11111010 10111010 10111010 10111010 11111010 10101010 10101000 11111010 10101110 10101110 11101010 10101010 10101110 10101000 10101010 10001010 11011010 00101010 10101110 10101000 10101110 11111010 1110100 00100110 00111110 10101110 10111010 11101010 11101010 00101110 11111010 10101101 10100010 10110110 10001010 10101110 10001010 10101010 10111010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10001011 10101011 110000010 11101010 10101110 10111010 11101010 10100010 10101010 10101010 10111000 10110100 10101010 100111010 11111110 10101000 10001010 10011010 10101000 1010010 11111010 11101110 10110100 01101010 100010100 10101000 10101010 111010100 10111100 10101000 00100110 11101111 11101010 101000100 10101010 10101011 10101110 101100100 11001010 10110100 10101010 11101011 00101010 10001010 10101110 11101011 00101010 10110100 10101010 11101011 00101010 10001010 10101010 11101010 11101010 10100011 10101010 11101010 00101010 10001010 10101010 10101010 10100100 10101010 10101010 10001010 10101010 10111010 11101010 10110100 10101110 10001010 10111010 11111111 11111010 11100010 10100110 10111010 01101110 10101000 11100010 10101010 00101110 00100110 10110100 10110010 10100010 10101000 10100010 10101000 11101110 11101010 10011110 10101110 10101000 11100110 10111010 11101010 01101110 11100010 11101010 11111010 10111010 10101010 10100010 10101110 11101011 101010010 10001010 10111110 10011010 10101010 10101010 10110010 10101000 11101011 11101010 11101110 10110011 00101010 10101010 10101000 10100010 10100010 11101010 10111000 10110010 10101010 10111010 11100010 10111011 10110100 10110110 01101010 11111010 10111110 11101010 00101110 10101010 11100011 10001010 10101110 00101010 11101011 10101010 10111010 10101000 10111011 11110010 11101010 11101010 10111011 10101010 11101010 10111110 11111110 10110011 11101010 10101010 10101011 11111010 11101011 00101000 10100110 10101000 11111110 11111011 11101010 10110100 11101010 10101010 10101010 10101000 10101010 101001010 10001010 10001011 101010010 10101010 10101010 00110100 10101000 1110100 10111010 10100010 10101010 10110011 10101011 001010010 10101110 11101000 00101010 00101011 00101110 10101010 11101010 10110011 11101010 10110010 00110100 10101110 00101010 10001010 101110010 10111110 10101000 10101011 10101010 10100010 10101000 10100010 10100010 10101110 10101110 00101010 1010100 10001110 100101010 10101010 10101010 1010001100 10101011 00101010 10101000 10001010 10111110 10101010 10100100 10100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6694
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1158
  • Amount of lines: 408
  • 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, for, his, thou, all, asked, sent, thee, no, to, ye, catches, their, these, in, my, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words through, to, let, never, thou, all, empty, asked, of, nothing, here, get, with, ere, catches, give, will, has, though, strike, struck, like, as, that, at are repeated.

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