This is an analysis of the poem From 'Omeros' that begins with:

BOOK SIX
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  • Rhyme scheme: a X b Xcd cdd efg gfg hce cec ecX iXi hjh ecj cec dhd had X jde aXe Xkk kcX cec dgd X acd cXa dad X b Xad aXa bah fhf hah ahh hhf Xfk lhl hgh elk lka faf aka maf dff hfh X nXn dfX iffXf fff feX dfd Xfa ffX lcl cff jae aha hXb Xma fof oehX eeX dXa af
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,1,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,5,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,4,5,3,4,4,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,1,3
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 101 1 011010100100 011110101001 101000011011 100111111101 101001101111 001111100010 011010100010 010111000110 0011001000100 010011010010 10001000111001 010110100110 101011001011 11111101010 110101011010 1000110111010 101011001110 111001010001 1100010011010 101111100111 111101010011 011111011101 1000100110110 110010011011 101001011101 010100111101 011001011010 01010110110010 100100111010 111010011111 110100110010 011111010010 101001100101 01110110101 011010101101 100100110101 1010100111101 001111010010 010100100101 1 110110101001 0110101001010 110101010100 0101010111010 10010111011 010111010110 010010101010 110100111010 101110010101 011011111010 011001011001 111100101010 010010101010 010010110010 1101101101100 101110100110 1010110101100 11011000011 1 1110101010101 011011101010 100111011001 100111011010 101011010100 010110010001 0100010000011 000111101001 110111110110 101 1 110011001000 000010101011 101001101110 011100111101 0101100110100 001111101111 0100101010101 110110101011 0110010100101 110010101101 001111011001 100010100010 0110011010101 101010010101 110110101001 011010011101101 001111101011 101101101001 010011111001 110101101101 110100101010 110101011101 001110100010 110010011101 01110011101 010110101001 101101001101 101111010111 100101100010 00101110011 110101101110 1010011001101 1010010110010 100100110101 11010010010 1010111101001 011011011011 111011110011 010100111010 110001110101 10111010111 100101101001 1010111110010 010101110101 0100100101010 110101101010 0111101001101 011100110111 0110101010010 110011001011 0110010101011 1 1010100111110 101010110010 010001101100 010111010100 001010101111 011101010010 110011011 1011 000101101100 0010100 110011 100100111111 001010010111 1010111111011 11111111010 111111111110 1111101011100 110101000101 011101010010 010100010010 11011000101010 011010011010 100100100101 001010000101 100100111001 010010010110 110101101001 101011100010 0011100010101 111100010111 0010001111101 110010110110 1101011101101 010011111101 0010010101100 010010110101 011111010101 011100010011 00100100010111 10111100110 110110111011 001011110110 001011100100 010000101011 100111011101 1101100001001 1010001000101 100101001011 0101100101010 1101111 111010 111101111110 001111111010 1000101111100010 110011000111101 001010101010 101111001101 011101010010 001001010101 101111011011 1110011111001 1111101110101 010110111010 1010010111001 00100101010 001011111110 110011111000 011001101010 100011101011 110111101001 110011010111 101001101111 110111110100 100111010101 100101110110 011110011001 11010111101 1000100011 11010101001 001111111011 110111011101 101010010101 111011111111 111010101101 1 110110111011 10111111011 11001 101110110 010111100011 10111 1000101100 11110101 1011100 011110110100 011100100111 110101011101 11010010 101100 111101110101 1101101011110 101110110101 011011001 1001 010101010010010 100101001011 011010100101 11010010011 100100100101 101010111001 00101111001 0010011110010 100111010101 00111010010000 100111001010 101011100110 100100101010 0101110010010 100101011001 011001110001 110100010101 110111001011 101010111010 110110110101 001101010101 1001001100101 100111101001 101001101001 101111001100 101010100101 010100110011 010101001011 111011110010 1111110100001 100101101101 11101110010100 100111100111 1010110110101 011101110110 111101100101 1110111110010 101111010011 1010100101111 110110011001 101 1 101101011111 1110010111010 10111010110110 110011100101 101110011101 100011011110 101101110010 110010010011 011011101101 101110110110 100011010011 0110011110010 101001011010101 0101001101010 111111011111 011010110110 01011100110 1100110101010 010010101110 0111001011011 001110110011 10110111000110 110110011111 010110010010 010100110111 1010110101110 111111110101 100011111110 110111010111 100110100101 001011101111 1010011010001 1001010110101 1111101101111 0111111110010 01011000111110 100111001001 111100111001 001010011101 1 110101100101 100010101001 101001001111 101011011101 011001010101 100101100111 010110101101 011110100101 110101101100 1 010010010110100 11100101110010 0110100101011 00111001011010 0111001010110 010101101001 11110011010110 101111110011 1100100111111 11001010001010 00010101010001 111011011010 11110110101 1011101010100011 0100101110010000 010011100100100 1001001101101 10011001101001 11010010100010 001011001011 11000110101010 0011001010 10111011010 10010010001001001 110111100101001 00100011000110 010101101101110 110111100110100 01101011110 101011011010 110010110010101 011010010010101 110011010010 111110110101 001101101011111 0010001101011 101 1 100110001001 001001001010 100110100101 100101011001 101110101011 010011101101 001101001101 110001100101 101111010101 001011101101 1011010101010 11011110110 111011101011 100010111101 100101001011 111110111101 111001011011 101110100111 010100100100 010111101001 001011011001 111001010101 001010011111 101010001001 1000110101100 010110101110 11000011101 111010101010 11010001011 101010110110 010010100101 1101001001111 110111011110 000100111101 110011111011 0101011010001 101010011111 1110001010010 1001001010010 101100111010 111100100110 001010101101 101001011101 111011011010 1010010100001 1 011111101110 101010000101 101111111010 0010010010101 001011001011 101010110110 110101001010 0100100101010 1001001011101 1011010010010 110100101111 0100100100010 1100100110100 0100010011010 111101110010 101011111010 100111111110 011111110100 111010011111 101110110010 101110101110 010011011001 01010100111011 010100111001 110110111110 001001110101 100100111101 011001101111 101001010010 100100111101 001011011101 111010100001 100010111101 1 011100110010 100010001001 100111001001 100111101001 1011001001001 010101010011 0010001001111 101000101011 101000111001 101101001001 1100101111000 10101111011 110001110100 011010010001 1110110110001 011111111001 110100101001 011011100111 001111110110 0101010010000 101101110010 0110101100010 010100110011 110011011010 100110110010 101011010101 101011011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 164
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 478
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, of, in, with, her, he, that, as, cut, to, his, you, it, its, they, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, it, of, the, he, she, a, for, in are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, at at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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