This is an analysis of the poem The Iliad: Book 16 that begins with:

Thus did they fight about the ship of Protesilaus. Then Patroclus
drew near to Achilles with tears welling from his eyes, as from some...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 722,2,
  • 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: 23770
  • Average number of words per stanza: 4469
  • Amount of lines: 724
  • 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; her, and, to, you, of, your, me, may, he, i, that, his, they, son, on, them, in, hand, their, him, it, my, with, as, stone, have are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words them, which, dodona, you are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines the, left, his, and, of are repeated).

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