The very effect can be produced by translating the "Kalevala" into prose.

Occasionally the passages are of surprising beauty, and they are always of surprising strangeness.
It is in parallelism especially that Finnish poetry offers a contrast to Japanese, but there is no reason whatever why, in the longer poems of Japanese poetry, parallelism could not be used.

All things have value according to place and time, and this has value--provided that it has a special effect on a special occasion.

All through the "Kalevala," all through five hundred pages, large pages, the parallelism is carried on, and yet one never gets tired.

It is not monotonous.