This is an analysis of the poem The Iliad: Book 18 that begins with:
Thus then did they fight as it were a flaming fire. Meanwhile the
fleet runner Antilochus, who had been sent as messenger, reached...
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacdefaghiXjjbbXjjhbklmhhknbnXXjaXihfbgombbocgcXebcnbjbXhbiXjgjopgfdgkfoXjXcjqdrXaXaaobgdacpkjqgnfXhqcgpgXddqsXhacjpgokkbchjjjdoXcggqopnqajdaoXdXoaXajkobXdbogXXetdbqhjdagkphpchqjXtduaajhhkhjqqgcjdqabpdqcrcfbnfocjaqoajkhggXhacpnXqqpbqXbbkkjqaXceoajhjkhcj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 489,2,
- 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: 15939
- Average number of words per stanza: 3020
- Amount of lines: 490
- 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, and, his, he, their, i, to, him, up, you, that, in, have, my, so, it, she, sea, would, we, your, them, they, by, water, juno, her, me, as, with, had, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, them, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines a, the, let, and 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 18;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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