This is an analysis of the poem The Voyage Of Telegonus that begins with:

Ill fares it with the man whose lips are set
To bitter themes and words that spite the gods;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacdeddbdXfgdbhfXdaiXXadXf hhhXgjbfaXkLafhaXdkehb afdamhnebocoimpafhaqfpXberaheXbkecbjdffafhLhiXbe fabqhbfaadarbhdbrbalafXhdcafbndjajmdXrh fdgrbabhmarbfeoedjbbaXiXdrchffdXaXbnajaffarohXfahb esjejbsgrdfbeXab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,22,48,39,50,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1100011111 0101111101 1101010101 0111110111 1111010111 0101010101 01110010101 1010111101 11110100101 0101110111 1100011101 0111011101 1111110101 0111010101 1101000101 01010001001 1001010001 1101110101 0111110001 1101111101 1101011111 0101010111 1101111000 0111011111 1101010101 11001010111 1101011000 1111011101 10011101001 11010010101 0101110001 0101110100 011110101 0100110101 1101011101 1101010101 0110100111 011010100 1011010101 1111110100 1101010101 1101110111 1101000111 1101010101 1101111000 0101010111 1101110101 11010101001 10010001001 0101110001 1101010101 1101010111 1101010101 11010100111 0101111101 11111101001 010010101001 11010001001 1101110101 1101010101 11110100101 0111010111 0111010111 0101110101 1101011101 1101000101 1101110101 1001010101 1001010111 1101001100 1101110101 1111010001 111111000 1101011101 0101010101 1100011101 01011100101 1101010111 0101010101 10010010 0111110101 0101000101 11010101001 0101011111 0101000101 1111111101 1111010111 1111010101 110011111 0111000101 11000100101 1101000101 1111110100 1001000101 11010100001 01010101001 11110101001 0101010101 1101110101 0111010101 1101010101 1101100100 1111011101 11010101001 1111110101 0101100101 010101101001 11010101001 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 0101001101 1101110101 01001010101 1110001101 11010010101 1111110111 1101010100 0101110111 1111010111 1111010101 0111000111 0111010101 0101011101 0101010001 0101110101 110111011010 1101010101 11010111 11010101001 1111110101 10000011111 1111110111 1101011101 1100010100 0111110101 1001010001 111111101 0101110001 1101001001 1101110101 1000010001 1111010101 1100010111 01010010111 11011100101 1101010101 111110101 1101110101 0111011101 11001110101 1101010001 0101000101 111101101 1101111111 11010111001 11110101001 11010101001 1111010111 11011100001 0101111000 1001110101 1101110101 1101110101 0101110111 0100111101 1101111111 1101110101 1101111100 1100110111 1101011000 1101010101 1101011101 1111010101 0101010101 1111011101 01010011101 1101110101 0101010101 1111100001 1101111001 0101000001 1111111000 01011101 1100010111 1101010111 1101111101 1111010101 11010110110 1101110101 01001000101 11001010101 1101110101 01110101010 1101010101 0101010101 11110101001 1001011101 1101110111 1101110101 11010100001 0111111111 0101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1490
  • Average number of words per stanza: 273
  • Amount of lines: 203
  • 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; of, and are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word gods at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Voyage Of Telegonus;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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