This is an analysis of the poem The Odyssey: Book 2 that begins with:

Now when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared,
Telemachus rose and dressed himself. He bound his sandals on to his...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 337,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 11045
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2108
  • Amount of lines: 339
  • 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; his, of, had, he, i, you, my, to, and, us, she, her, we, not, me, at, in, they, them, for, with, as, other, your, all, their are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

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  • summary of The Odyssey: Book 2;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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