This is an analysis of the poem The Iliad: Book 8 that begins with:
Now when Morning, clad in her robe of saffron, had begun to suffuse
light over the earth, Jove called the gods in council on the topmost...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 433,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
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- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 14176
- Average number of words per stanza: 2648
- Amount of lines: 435
- 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; gods, i, to, you, and, of, all, we, his, with, gold, took, upon, your, he, been, horses, in, for, teucer, would, have, him, had, her, them, spear, may, let, they, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words took, been, gates are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines the, her, will 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 8;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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