This is an analysis of the poem The Odyssey: Book 10 that begins with:

Thence we went on to the Aeoli island where lives Aeolus son of
Hippotas, dear to the immortal gods. It is an island that floats (as...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 451,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 14657
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2876
  • Amount of lines: 453
  • Average number of symbols per line: 64 (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; it, and, all, of, he, in, we, as, to, you, me, they, i, who, her, my, them, for, him, their, by, she, pigs, with, his, be, your, our, us, had, into are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of The Odyssey: Book 10;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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