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

THE MOTHER'S COUNSEL.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a bXXXXcXdaXbXbeaeXbfbadecgbXfXXfbXhaidbbXXchbjeXekdhjjXXXbleXXlXmXeXhXkhcXaXXcgaflnjcmdoXmXcmeXXkjcbXCmmeeeXXjccmdXCdfXkkodmXXakdmXCmcXdhmXeeabgeboeljbXXXcdXXXXXXdXXdkfXacfkXEcehccmedcdcfdbXhbccXXjhbdcjXEkdbkkbdbbckkkombbebbkkkkdbkdkcimoknchXXbfkochedkX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,296,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010 10100010 10101000 10111000 10001100 00101010 00101011 0010100 10110010 10101010 00110100 10111010 00101010 11101010 10101010 10101110 11011010 10110011 10001011 10101010 10111010 10101010 10101010 10101010 00100011 10101010 10101011 00101010 10001110 00110100 10111000 10100110 10101110 10101010 10001010 10101010 10111010 10101010 10111010 10111010 11001000 10101010 00111010 10101110 10100010 10100010 10100010 10101010 10111010 10101011 11100010 10011010 01101010 10011110 001011000 10101000 11111010 10111010 10111011 001010010 10101000 10101010 10111011 11101000 11100110 00101010 10100110 10101000 11111010 1010100 11111111 11101010 10101011 10101010 10101010 00100100 00101110 10101010 10001010 00101010 00101010 10101011 11110011 100101010 10101010 11111010 10100110 100111010 10100100 11101010 10111100 11101110 11111010 11101110 11001010 10101000 10101111 01101110 10111110 11101010 11101010 10001010 100111010 11101101 01110110 11101010 00100110 011010100 10101000 10100110 01110010 01111110 10111110 11101010 10101010 10001010 111110010 11100110 10100100 10111011 10101011 00101110 00101010 11101111 11101010 10101000 100101110 00111111 10101010 10101110 11101010 10001010 100111010 10111010 10100100 11101010 10101010 01101001 10101010 00100010 10101010 11111010 11111010 11111010 10101010 11100010 101101010 10111010 11101011 10101010 10001010 11100110 10011110 10101000 10101010 10011010 10111010 111110100 10101000 10101000 100111110 11101110 00111010 10111110 00110100 10101010 10101011 11101110 1010100 10111010 10111011 00101110 10101011 10101010 00100010 11110011 11110010 11001010 00011011 11101110 10101010 10100010 00101010 00110010 11111010 10101110 10111110 10011110 00111010 0010110 01101010 01111010 11101010 11100110 11101100 10101000 11101010 11101010 10101010 10111010 00111010 10100110 10111011 00100010 111111111 00111010 10100011 10101011 10001011 10111010 10100010 11111010 10110010 11110011 10111011 10011011 10001111 10100011 10001110 10111010 00101010 11001010 11001010 11001010 10101011 10101011 10101111 101001111 00110010 10100010 11101011 10111010 10101111 11001011 11001011 00110010 10110010 10111011 10101111 10100011 11111110 00101111 10101000 11101010 11101010 110001111 11101010 10100011 10111110 10101110 01101010 1001010101 10101010 10100010 10111000 00100010 11101010 10101010 10101010 11111010 10101010 11110010 11111110 11101110 11111010 10111010 10111010 101110100 10101000 10111010 11101010 11100010 10100010 11101110 11111011 01101001 01011010 10101011 00101110 10001010 11111010 11110010 10101110 00110010 00101010 00101010 11101011 11100010 00101011 00101010 00111010 10101110 11111010 00101010 01101010 01101010 01101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4902
  • Average number of words per stanza: 851
  • 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; from, of, my, to, eyes, his, in, thou, thee, thy, that, be, not, me, catch, name are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, who, thou, like, fly, in, at, would, with, if, have, was, whither, to, that, catch, name, where are repeated.

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

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

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