This is an analysis of the poem Marshalling Of The Achaians that begins with:
[Iliad, B. II V. 455]
Like as a terrible fire feeds fast on a forest enormous,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXXbacXXXXdcceacdXdXfbefe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,25,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111 11010010111010010 1101011010010111 1101110010110010 111101001110011 1111110011000011 0001101101110011 111011010010010 1011111010010110 1010111011010100 1110010111110011 1110100110010010 1001110011010011 1111011010100110 1011101010010010 101101110110110 1001011010111011 10101100100100011 101100111010011 1101101010010010 111101010111011 10010010111110010 1001010110110111 1101001101011011 1101101111110010 100100110010010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 864
- Average number of words per stanza: 160
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, of, and, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
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