This is an analysis of the poem The Iliad: Book 11 that begins with:

And now as Dawn rose from her couch beside Tithonus, harbinger of
light alike to mortals and immortals, Jove sent fierce Discord with...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 686,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 22599
  • Average number of words per stanza: 4252
  • Amount of lines: 688
  • Average number of symbols per line: 65 (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, her, on, and, his, had, it, as, with, in, all, he, them, for, to, you, him, cisses, spear, we, that, they, son, i, your, has, me, among, us, if are repeated.

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

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

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