This is an analysis of the poem The Odyssey: Book 20 that begins with:

Ulysses slept in the cloister upon an undressed bullock's hide, on
the top of which he threw several skins of the sheep the suitors had...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.

  • Rhyme scheme: abcabdefghbijfkXlamanodpjdXibopbkXjjkkkhiXkjmblmgidmiibdjpkgkdlqklnlklXXqbarkkoafXlbambbibmfblillXdlodobkkblbXklbdbliXdbXddidpXfoadgiooXhjXXbdndajpXbmpokopgogilbpboqqaikbpdkkabbbgbXbncgkoXXXgiaokXadgfdlgmdjlkiolXolipXddsfkokpmsafdoflaXadlrXibjkbahplljXbXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 316,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010010011011011 01011110010010101 1011001011011011101 111010110001001010 1111010111101011 0001001000010010 1100110010100101010 10111010011111001010 01111010111111 001001101111010 101110111101010 01101010101101011 110111100111110 011011010011111 0101110010111011 110011111010100 11100011100010011 101111101101110 1001101001111111010 111101111100101011 0101010110101110 1011111010111010011 0101011110101101000 100010110100110101 01011111010010011 11010101101110110 111101010110 100010010101111011 110111011101001110 10101010101000111 111001010001011 01000010101011010101 0100111100101110010 011001001100 10100010101010111101 1011110111001001011 111111101011110101 0101110111101101 101010101011100111 11111110110010 111010001011010111 1110101100110 111111100111110 010 10101110010010110 110100010010001011 101001010111101011 1011001010101001010 0111100011111111 111111111101010 110001010101001000 10010001001001110 110101101101101 101100110111011 11010001110010011 1010010101010101010 0100100100100111110 111001001101100101 111111110111100 100101111100001001 10001100101111011 10101110101111010 11111111100101101 111110010101010110 01110011111011101 11011111111001111 111111011101010 0101101011100111001 1010110111101111 110101111110100111 0111011011110101 100 1001110101010010 10101101111010111 1101111010110101 11111101010010111 01011000101101010 1011101001111110 111011101111010010 11101111011001011 110011111001011111 010101101000 10111101111101 101000100010101011 11101011010101010 011001110101111010 110110101100101 111011010101011 111110111101111 101111111101111 010111011010010 10010011101110101111 1000110111101001 01101110101101 11101101111000101 11010100100101111 1001101011011111 10101010101110 01011111010010110 101110101111111 101011010 1010100111101010 11000101111011100 1010101010101011 1010100101011110 01100101101001001 10101000110111110 1111101111001011 010101010100101101 001010110010011010 101111011001010110 110010111011111 1110011011110111 1111111100101110 1001111111111110 1111111101110101 01011010110111101 11001011101101100 110001100100110 10010001011010011 1110110111011100 101111011101100 1011000010010110 1010111010101001 1110101101111000 10110100010101001 101000110 1011110101111100 0100101101010101 100010101011000101 0101011101101011110 10010010101001100 001111111111101 01001111010000010 1001010101101011111 1001100 10100100101000001000 111110000101101101 0100 101101110001011 11111000111010101 111100111011100 10011100011010101011 110011101010110010 1111111111111101 101001111011001011 11011010100111111 01010111100 01011101101110101 1100101110001010 111101101010111 0110101101100110010 101010110010011110 0100101000111001010 10110110111001001 111011011101101 1110111001101001 001100 111111001010101001 110101101001110100 10101111110110111 11010111101010111 11011111100111001 01001110111101111 101110110010111010 010111101100110101 010010010110010101 01110101110101111 10101000110101101 111110001111111 11011001110110001 1001111100111000 11110101011010100 0110010001001110011 1111011001101101 010010100100110101 10100011001110110 01101011010001000111 111101111110001001 101101101111001011 1111010100100 10001001010100010101 10111111101011110 111001110111101 01111110010011111 01010101110110111 1011111001011110 100 10100100100101010 111111110110110 1011010110101011 101101101001001 010100010111011111 1000100101010001101 010101010000101111 010100 0101001110111111 010111101011110 1011010101110 1110100101101001 10010111001010100 10011001011111 1110100110010 1000100101010010010 1110111101010110 10100011101000101 10100100111010011 10111010110101010 0111001010011011 01001011101011110 1111110101100 100 0101111100101000 111001111111011 0110011000010010010 0111111110100111 10 11100110001011110 10010010100101010 10101001010010 11100101101011 10010101100111011 10110101001001101010 111000110011 1010111010111011 10011100100011110 01011100001001010 1111001110101 100001111010010 01011001010111010 1010101110101101100 110011110000111010 1000111101101100111 1011111100100110 101100100100 1111110101001100 101110101010101010 10011010010101001011 0110101111010001 1001001000011101110 010101111110111 111111101111101 110101101101011000 111111101010001001 1111110010001101101 1010101010011110 10111111101111010 11111111001110111 101111101001011011 1111110111101011 1011010111001010 01010101010 11111111100101001 1011110111101111 01001100011111100 101101100101101011 111100101010001010 111101010111111 11111101010111111 11010110110001000 011011010111101 100101001110101111 1101001001101100100 1110111001101010 110100100101101001 011101111001101 1011110 0010001010110011010 01010101110101010010 100011011111000010 110101010011001 101010110101001000 101111011111110 10101101001111110 0101101010101000001 11110011010001 1011011011110 1111010010001000 10111000110011110 0101011010101111 1010100101010011 1111010010101 0101101101000101 010101010101010101 010 10111110011001000 111010111011110 101011100011110 11100 1100011000011111010 111111010101101100 11010110111001011 11101010101110111 101010110110010010 001001000 11011111110010111 101010110110101010 100011010101100101 01100001111001111 101000111101111 111111111010100 10111001010101001110 1011011100011001 0111110100100111 1010 100011111110010010 0101001011101001010 10 1101001001010011101 11101001110111 11110011100100110 01011000101010101 11101101010101101 110100111010110 1010110101010111 1110101 01011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 10274
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1916
  • Amount of lines: 318
  • 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; and, with, you, he, as, it, your, i, to, of, me, them, on, she, his, would, in, not, have, they, we, for, their, had are repeated.

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

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

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

  • summary of The Odyssey: Book 20;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

More information about poems by Homer