This is an analysis of the poem The Odyssey: Book 14 that begins with:

Ulysses now left the haven, and took the rough track up through
the wooded country and over the crest of the mountain till he...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 424,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 13882
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2703
  • Amount of lines: 426
  • 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; he, which, them, had, in, and, his, have, of, to, on, you, for, who, their, they, as, i, it, me, by, him, come, ships, we, my, that, sea, round, about, would, ' are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them, and, i, to are repeated).

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  • summary of The Odyssey: Book 14;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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