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

WAINAMOINEN'S SAILING.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a bXcXXXcXddXXeXfcgXfdbXXcXXbXeXfXccfchbaXXiaXfeebXdccibdhbXjDXXghfceheddccXchfabhbckefcFgdeccdXgabXfadfeiXXXcbccicXiDBXgXbehbhIXcgdfaaeBaaacXcfXaiaXbahddXcbeedbcleedabmefgiiabffcbcdcgXefagcbnceXXcbcXdgcefnnXchEeXXndXenahEXeXXXhXmeXeehXXdnoenfadeaceoXXFa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,404,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100010 10001110 11101000 11101010 1110100 10101010 10101010 10001010 10101010 10101010 00101011 0010100 10101010 10101010 00110100 10001010 11101010 10111010 11101011 11101010 00100010 10101010 10101010 10101000 10111010 1110100 11101010 11101010 10100100 10101010 00110100 00101010 101001100 10001110 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101011 10111110 11111010 111111100 10101000 10111010 10101110 10111010 10001110 10001010 101010010 10001010 10111111 00111110 01101110 11111010 10111110 11101010 111010101 11101011 10101110 11101010 00111010 00101011 0010100 10111000 00101010 10100010 001011110 00111110 10100010 10101010 10011010 10101010 10101110 10101010 10101110 10101000 00101010 10101010 10100010 110010110 10101010 10100010 10101010 10100010 10101010 10101010 10001010 00101110 10000010 10101010 101000101 11101010 10101010 10101010 10111110 00100010 10111011 10101010 10101110 10101010 10101010 10101010 100010101 10101010 11101010 10111110 10101010 10101100 10111000 100111010 10111010 00111110 11111010 10101110 10001010 10001010 10111010 00101011 10001010 10101000 10001110 101110010 01101010 00101110 0011101 00101010 10101010 10001110 10111000 10101010 11001010 10111010 10101110 11111010 10111010 10101010 10001010 11101010 11011010 11101010 11101110 00101010 11101010 10101010 10101011 01101010 10101110 10101110 10101000 11101010 10101010 11101111 01101010 11111110 10101010 10111010 10101010 10101110 10101010 00100010 10101010 10111110 11101110 11101010 10101010 01111110 10111110 10110110 10101011 10011110 10101010 10111010 10111010 10101110 00111010 10001010 11001010 11101010 01111110 10101010 10111110 10111010 10100010 10101010 11101110 01111010 111001010 11101110 11100010 10111110 11101010 01101011 11101010 00100010 10101010 10001110 10101110 11111010 10111010 1110100 10110011 10101010 11110010 11101010 111010010 11101011 11101011 10100011 10101110 10101010 10111010 101010010 10101100 10101000 11110011 11101010 10101010 10101011 101011011 10101010 10101010 10111010 10101010 10101011 10101011 10101000 11101010 10111010 10101010 00100011 10111110 11111110 11111011 11101010 10100010 10101010 10101000 10101011 11001011 10101011 10100010 10101011 10101010 11101010 00101010 11101010 10111010 10101110 11101010 01101011 11101010 10100010 10000010 10101010 11101010 11101010 10101010 10001010 10101010 111010010 10001010 10101110 10101010 10101010 10101110 10001010 10111010 10101010 10110010 10101010 10101011 10101010 10111010 10101011 11101010 101001010 10101000 10110010 10101010 10001010 10111011 10100110 10101000 10100010 10111010 10001010 10101010 10100110 10101000 10110010 10101010 1000110 11101010 10100110 10111000 10101010 101110010 10101010 11101100 10101010 00111010 10001010 10111110 10101010 10111011 10111011 00101110 10111010 10101000 10101010 10101010 00101000 10101110 10111000 10001010 10100100 10101010 10101010 10100010 11101010 10110011 10101110 10101010 00100010 00101110 10100011 10101011 10101011 10101010 10110010 10100010 10101010 10111010 100110011 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101000 11101010 10101011 10001010 10100110 10111000 10101010 100100010 10101110 00100010 10101010 10111010 10100010 00101000 11101110 10100011 11111010 10110100 11111010 10101011 10101000 11101010 11101010 10001110 10101010 10001010 10001010 10100110 10101000 11100011 10101010 10101010 00110100 00101010 10101000 11011000 11010100 11101010 1111010 1101010 11101010 11101110 111010100 10001010 10101010 10111000 10010011 10101010 00101000 10100011 10101000 10101110 10101010 10101010 100111010 00100100 10001010 11101010 10111010 10101010 10101110 10100010 11101010 10011000 100001110 10101110 11101010 10111010 11111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6573
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1166
  • Amount of lines: 406
  • 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; to, in, on, from, nearer, my, thee, sail, without, like, for, of, aspen are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, from, bring, forge, to, in, like, on, weep, never, dost, sail, when, near, good, 'tis, at, whither 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 word/phrase sailing connects the lines.

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