This is an analysis of the poem The Odyssey: Book 18 that begins with:

Now there came a certain common tramp who used to go begging all
over the city of Ithaca, and was notorious as an incorrigible...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 342,2,
  • 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: 11059
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2082
  • Amount of lines: 344
  • Average number of symbols per line: 63 (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; him, to, he, and, you, i, of, his, should, as, my, in, your, me, her, she, what, with, they, let, us, them are repeated.

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

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase irus connects the lines.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Odyssey: Book 18;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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