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

ILMARINEN'S FRUITLESS WOOING.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a BCdefgXfhXfgggadXXgXfaeXXgiXfXjhfXfeXbiXgXibhXXffbfgbkXXXkFlafbfcchXaXbafkmflfeneeffXeXfehjffgXbdXXCkFbbXobefgebaeepbXqeXfdbbXfIBXQbXQXXIBXQcXQXgiBXqfXqXigcfIXXgbmebFmefXBcgIGfgInXkbpgbFfffXffgIGfibXXfambFfmfXXXfkfhXnhafbaXmaXbebeXefgXbiXghXkafgkeecagd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,286,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10001010 10000010 00101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 11001011 10101011 10101010 10101010 00100100 10101010 10100011 11101010 10111010 10101110 11101110 1010100 10100100 10001011 10101000 10101010 11111010 10101010 10100110 10111000 11111010 10101110 1110100 11110110 10110100 10100011 10101010 10101010 00100100 11101010 10100110 10100100 10111010 11101010 10100010 10100011 11101000 10101110 11101010 00101110 00110100 10001010 10100010 11101110 11111010 10100010 101011101 10111011 00100111 00100100 0010010 10111000 10101010 10101010 10001011 10101010 11100010 10111110 00101110 11100010 11101010 11101010 11101010 10101110 11101000 10001010 11100010 10111010 10101110 10111010 10100110 11101010 11101010 10101110 00111011 10110010 00111011 00101010 10101110 10110100 10101110 00111000 10101010 10101010 11101010 10100011 11101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10011010 10110010 10101000 00101010 10101010 10101010 101010010 10001010 10001010 00101011 00111010 10100011 10101010 10101110 01101010 00101010 10101010 11101110 10101010 11101110 10101010 10100010 01111011 10111010 11110011 10001010 10111011 101110010 11001010 10111010 101010010 11101010 10101010 10101000 11111011 11101010 00100010 11101011 10111010 10100100 11101010 10101010 10101000 11111011 11100010 101011100 11101011 10101010 10100011 11101010 10101010 11101000 100011111 10111010 11101011 10111011 11101010 11111010 10101110 10111010 10101010 00110111 11101000 11101110 101010110 10101010 11101010 10101110 10111010 100111010 00111110 00100011 11101010 10101000 10000010 10101010 10101110 10101010 10101010 10111010 10101110 00110111 11100011 11111010 10101010 10101010 10101010 11101010 10111010 100111010 00101010 10011010 10101010 10101000 10101010 10101010 10101110 10101010 10101010 10101010 00110111 11100010 10111110 10111000 10101010 10101010 10111010 10101010 100111010 10110110 01111110 10101010 10101000 10100010 10100100 10101010 10101010 10101010 10111010 100101000 00100011 11100010 10001010 10101010 10101010 00101010 101111000 10101110 11111010 10111000 11101010 00111010 00100010 11100011 10101010 11100010 10111010 01111011 10101110 10110010 110001010 11101000 11101011 00101110 00111010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101110 10100011 10001010 10001010 10101011 10001010 10100110 10001011 10101010 10001010 00101000 10001110 10111011 11100010 10001010 100101010 0010100 11001110 10101000 11110010 10101010 10101010 111010110 101010110 101110110 10010010 10100011 10101010 101010010 10111010 10101000 10001010 11001110 10111010 11111010 10101000 11101010 00111010 11101010 10001010 10111110 10101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4687
  • Average number of words per stanza: 822
  • Amount of lines: 288
  • 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, to, his, in, grinds, flour, for, there are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sleeps, for, to, in, wish, with, quick, of, grinds, there are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase never connects the lines.

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