This is an analysis of the poem The Shipwreck Of Idomeneus that begins with:

Swept from his fleet upon that fatal night
When great Poseidon's sudden-veering wrath ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcadcefgdfeadeedchijkfldbffmnfijandfdaifXeaiopnanlaidnchmXmXacfndpadnfiXgngffecdeadnefqXeferfmnngdqnmfstadmdcnae rincp fghididifdhdadfcfgmkaefXfnicacfthfr XfahnceffafanbmlacddddogpdefinXfcbcdadffdgndpddnXeecfbcfjbnljheleaecccahfdceXqfbfs dhnnfjifmacflfjd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 113,5,35,82,48,37,60,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2091
  • Average number of words per stanza: 359
  • Amount of lines: 379
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; his, with, and, of, thy, my, to, its, by are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of, with, the, their, leave are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines now is repeated).

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