This is an analysis of the poem The Iliad: Book Vi (Excerpt) that begins with:
He said, and pass'd with sad presaging heart
To seek his spouse, his soul's far dearer part;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaadd eeaaaabbcceecccX ccaaddeeaabbffcceeggcc bbcchibbffbbddjjeekkeell kkeehhbbll cckkddccaabbXXcX ddeeffhhbbiieeeeddeebbmmXXccffccXX ccaaeeeedX bbbbnnhhfXcX hheeddee aaffooppffbbfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,16,22,24,10,16,34,10,12,8,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111011001 0101011101 1111011101 10110101001 1101100101 011000101 1011110101 1001110101 1011010101 1101010101 11111101010 11011101010 1001111111 0101000111 1101010101 1101000101 1000100110101 10101001001 0101011101 0101000101 1111010101 1111010101 0100011101 1101110001 0101000101 0110001010 1001010101 1101110101 1101001101 110101011 0101110101 01011000101 1001110001 1100010101 0111010101 0101110101 1111110101 1101111101 0011010101 10001001001 100010101 0011000101 10010011101 0101010101 0101010101 1101110101 01010000101 10111100001 10101110111 1101001111 1111110110 0101010101 1111010101 1111110101 1001010101 1101111101 11111010101 1111011101 1111011101 1101011110 1101011101 1101110101 01010111010 1111111110 0101000101 1111110101 01001010011 1111010101 1101010101 0101010101 10101011101 0101100101 10011111101 0111100101 1011110111 0111010101 1101010101 0101000101 0111111001 01010010101 1101110101 1101000101 10111010111 1101010101 0111010101 1101001101 1111001101 1101010101 1101010101 1111110101 10010110101 1101110101 1110011101 11010101001 1111010111 1111101001 1100011101 11110111010 01011011011 1101110101 1101010101 1111110101 1001001101 11010010101 1101110101 11101010101 1101100101 1111010111 1100010111 1111011101 01110100111 11110011101 11110101111 1101010011 11110110001 1111010101 111001111 11110010101 0101110001 1101110111 0101010111 01010010001 1111010101 11100101010 1101111101 1001111101 0101011011 0101110101 1111011101 1001010101 1101010101 11011111110 110110100101 1011010101 0111000101 11010011101 0101011101 1101000101 0101000101 1101010101 1101110101 1001010101 1011101101001 1111010111 1111010101 0101000101 0101010101 1101000101 1101000101 0101110101 1111100101 11110101010 1101010101 010101100010 1111010101 0101010001 1101010111 1001100101 0101010111 1100010101 0101010101 1101011101 1000111101 1001010111 1011110011 1101100101 1001010101 1101010011 1111011111 1101010101 1111001111 1101010101 1101000101 0101000111 1101011111 010101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 741
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 176
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, her, to, she, no, thy, of, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the, no, my, and, not are repeated.
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- summary of The Iliad: Book Vi (Excerpt);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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