This is an analysis of the poem The Seventeenth Book Of Homer's Odysseys that begins with:
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Such speech they chang'd; when in the yard there lay... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddeeffddfffffccddggeeXX bbhheeaahhbbffccbXbbddffaXeXhhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 0,31,31,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111100111 0111010101 011100101 1101010101 11011110001 11110111001 1011101111 1011111101 1110010101 01010110101 0101100101 1111011001 01011000101 1101110111 1101011101 1101111101 11011101101 1101111101 1101011101 010101110101 01011111001 1100110111 01100100100 1101101101 1101010101 1111101001 0111110101 1111001101 1111010101 11110011101 110100110100 1010111010011 0111101101 1111000101 11010111101 1101011111 1101011101 0111011101 1101110101 1101111101 1111010111 1111010101 0101000101 1101111111 1111110001 0111011101 0101011011 1101011111 11010001100 0101111111 1101010101 1001010101 1100110111 1101111101 1101110101 1111011101 11011001010 01110011010 11010101001 1111010111 1111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1425
- Average number of words per stanza: 254
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, his, and, their, or, he, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words , up, in, that are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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