This is an analysis of the poem The Odyssey: Book 22 that begins with:

Then Ulysses tore off his rags, and sprang on to the broad
pavement with his bow and his quiver full of arrows. He shed the...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 377,2,
  • 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: 12242
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2283
  • Amount of lines: 379
  • 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, to, and, they, you, have, my, he, we, all, us, him, at, for, one, i, as, suitors, had, in, your, she, of, them are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of The Odyssey: Book 22;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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