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

THE FROST-FIEND.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a bXccdaccefadadfXdfdacgbdXXfhfhbXiaiaXffaXjXcdXdiXdjaiXdiddXfffakddXXXfbfffadehffeiblXcXXcbmciafficgafiXdagXXaXdffXXXdXddhajjhngdbXfXlXedgeemiXdageidgdecdgaaifdladfgfimXXbadXnaegdafadgggdmddfdfddmaidfggdXeXgjbffXbgdXaffjjXeffdcaeiegbddfdfeddddddddmjdjhg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,482,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011 10001010 10101000 10101010 10100010 00101010 00100010 10101010 10100010 10101010 11101010 00100010 10111010 10111011 11111010 10111110 11101010 10001010 00101010 10101110 11111011 11100110 00111110 10001010 10011110 10101110 10101000 1000110 10001110 11101010 11101110 11111010 10011010 101110110 11101010 00101001 10100011 10101010 00111010 10101010 11111010 0010100 10101011 10101011 10001010 10101110 11101010 10011010 00110010 10111010 10100010 01101011 10100011 10110010 00110100 11100010 10101010 10111010 11101010 10111010 10101010 11101010 11111010 10101011 11111010 11011010 01101010 11101110 11011010 10011110 10101010 101010010 10111010 10111010 10101010 10101011 10110010 10111010 10100010 00111010 00101010 10100011 10111110 10111010 10011011 10101011 10111010 101010110 1001111 10101010 00111010 10001010 101000010 10101010 10101010 10101010 1110010010 10100010 10101010 101010100 10101010 10101010 00100010 100110100 100111011 10101011 111010100 00101010 10101000 10010111 10111000 10101010 10101010 10100010 10101010 10010100 10101010 10110010 00100100 100101011 10111010 11111110 11101010 10101111 10101011 10100010 10001010 10110010 10101010 10100010 10101010 11101110 10101110 11111111 11001010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101011 10101010 11101010 10101010 10110110 10100110 10101110 10100010 10111110 10110010 10101110 10101010 10101010 11101010 10101010 10101010 10111110 10001010 10101110 10101010 10101010 10100010 10101011 10101011 10101010 10101010 10111110 10101010 10111110 10101010 11101010 10111000 11101010 10101011 10111110 10101000 10111010 101100101 110010010 11001010 10101110 11101011 101101010 11101010 10111110 10111010 11101011 10101010 10101010 10101010 10111110 11101110 10111110 10110010 10101110 10110011 10111010 10101010 11101010 11110010 11101010 10111010 10101010 101001010 10101010 10101010 11001010 10101110 11101010 11100111 11100010 11111010 11100110 1110111 11100010 11101010 10101011 10100100 00101011 10101110 11101010 10100111 11101111 10111110 11111010 11110010 10101010 00101110 000101010 10111010 10011010 10111110 10101110 10101110 00100010 10111010 10101111 100101010 10100010 10100010 10101110 10101011 10001010 10101010 10101110 10101011 10111110 10111111 11101010 10111110 11100101 11111110 01111011 11101010 00101010 01101110 100110110 01111010 1010010010 101000110 10111010 11101110 00101110 11100010 11101010 10100010 10101010 00101010 10101010 10101010 11111010 11101110 00101010 00101010 110010010 11101010 11101010 00100011 10100010 10101010 11111010 11110110 11101010 10101010 11110010 11101010 10100010 10001110 11101010 11111111 10101010 10101010 10001010 10111010 10101110 11101010 10101010 10001010 10101110 10111011 01101111 10111110 110010010 10101010 00111000 11101010 10101010 10100010 10101110 10111000 10100010 10001011 10111010 10101010 00100100 10101010 00100010 10111010 10101011 11111010 10100011 10101010 10101010 10101000 10100010 00101110 11101010 11101010 00111110 10101110 10101000 11101010 10111110 11101010 101001110 10101010 10001010 11101010 10111110 10111100 10011111 10101000 10101000 10110010 10100011 10001010 10001110 10100011 00101011 11101111 11111011 10101110 11101010 11111010 10011010 11111110 10101010 10111110 11111010 00101011 0010100 10111110 10111110 0010010 00101010 10111010 10101010 10111111 00101010 00101010 00110010 10111110 10101110 101011100 10101010 10111010 10101010 10101010 10101010 101110010 11101110 01101110 11101110 10101010 10101010 10101010 10001111 10001010 101010010 10101110 10111011 10101010 00100010 10111110 10101010 11100010 10111010 00100100 1111110 10101010 10101010 00100110 11101110 10101110 00111110 11101010 10111011 10101000 1001110 11101010 11111010 11111011 10001110 10101010 11101110 10111010 11011010 01101010 11101010 10100011 10111010 10111010 10111010 00101110 11111110 11110111 11011110 01111010 10101010 10101110 10101010 10101010 101001010 10101101 11111010 10101011 11111010 10111010 10111010 11101110 10111110 11111010 10101010 10101010 10011110 10001110 10110110 10101110 10111011 11101010 10011110 10100010 10100010 10111010 10101010 11111010 11111010 01101011 11011110 10101110 11001010 10101010 10101110 00101010 011001110 11101110 00101010 00111110 10101000 10101010 10100010 11101010 00101110 00101010 10101010 0011110 10111010 10001010 10111000 11101000 01101110 10101010 00101110 11111000 10101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 7993
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1417
  • Amount of lines: 484
  • 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, in, to, me, from, freezes, thicker, deeper, and, let, freeze, thine, thou, evil, thy, never, one, not, their, made are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, from, o'er, like, on, freeze, goes, gained, freezes, he, neither, let, in, dost, when, know, till, never, over, wove, here, hither, where, whether, or, thou, many, then, these, keep, be are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases hasten, lying connect the lines.

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