This is an analysis of the poem The Odyssey: Book 17 that begins with:

When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared,
Telemachus bound on his sandals and took a strong spear that suited...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 475,2,
  • 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: 15529
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2920
  • Amount of lines: 477
  • 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; to, him, and, of, i, as, she, her, his, you, your, went, with, my, them, they, he, in, me, their, dinner, it, for, had, out, who, antinous, men, have, has, that are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of The Odyssey: Book 17;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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