This is an analysis of the poem The Funeral Of Sarpedon that begins with:
Zeus mourns deeply:
Patroklos has killed Sarpedon....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXddebdaXfccghigXdXjcfghaeXijagjXgjabh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 10011100 1100101011 01101001000 1110101111 1110100101 001010 111101101 11110101001 00100110101010 01010001001010 11000100010 110011101 10100111111 1010010100 1100010001001 1100110011 110111 11101001001 1111011010100 101110101 10011010 0100101 0100111010010 10100101 010110110 1111100 010100100110 10110111 111101011010 111101 00110 11010010010 1101011001 110101010010 01100010010110110 01010001010 0111101 11100010 110101001 101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1584
- Average number of words per stanza: 282
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, with are repeated.
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- summary of The Funeral Of Sarpedon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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