This is an analysis of the poem The Odyssey: Book 11 that begins with:

Then, when we had got down to the sea shore we drew our ship into
the water and got her mast and sails into her; we also put the sheep...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 479,2,
  • 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: 15737
  • Average number of words per stanza: 3038
  • Amount of lines: 481
  • 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; and, we, her, of, with, i, to, had, ', you, by, your, me, my, he, in, on, tell, she, as, river, for, who, him, nine, they, mount, not, or, be, his, would are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of The Odyssey: Book 11;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
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