This is an analysis of the poem Eideolon, Book 3, Section 7 that begins with:
Was Helen stronger than Achilles even 'as the arrows fell'? That could not be, but he recognised in her some power other than her legendary...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a Xbc cca deb XEf ceE fde Edd bdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101010101011110111000001101010101010 111100 10101111 110101 110010101 10001001 01011010 10100101 11101010 01010101 010111100 011111100 111101 110100 10101 011111100 1010 010010 11011 011111100 11111 01011 101001 1011 1011001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more 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; he, could are repeated.
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- summary of Eideolon, Book 3, Section 7;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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