This is an analysis of the poem The Iliad: Book 10 that begins with:

Now the other princes of the Achaeans slept soundly the whole
night through, but Agamemnon son of Atreus was troubled, so that he...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 448,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 14694
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2757
  • Amount of lines: 450
  • Average number of symbols per line: 64 (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; of, he, and, his, for, by, to, them, i, your, him, my, me, with, their, they, all, would, it, gave, as, have, you, horses, from are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines my, you, the are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Iliad: Book 10;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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