This is an analysis of the poem The Iliad: Book 12 that begins with:
So the son of Menoetius was attending to the hurt of Eurypylus
within the tent, but the Argives and Trojans still fought desperately,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 379,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
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- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 12618
- Average number of words per stanza: 2384
- Amount of lines: 381
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, it, had, of, he, him, so, let, in, they, his, that, their, them, but, be, about, i, we, you, not, trojans, why, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, with, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines to, the, of, had, were, it, and, he are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase asius connects the lines.
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- summary of The Iliad: Book 12;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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