This is an analysis of the poem The Odyssey: Book 23 that begins with:

Euryclea now went upstairs laughing to tell her mistress that her
dear husband had come home. Her aged knees became young again and...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 297,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001101100101010 110111011011011 01010111111001011 1001010010101001110 101101011110111 01001110101110111 01111010101011100 011010011110010 1001001001001010101 0111101001010111 1101001100001111 0100111111000100010 1111111111001010 1011011011100111 110010011110111011 1000111101011000 1100111010001010010 101111111011101111 11001000110100111 0110 1011010100101110100 111111101001101110 1011111101100010 1000110111111110 1010111100111110 10 10100110011011 1001111101110011100 001011101111110110 0101010101010101010 00111100 101110010100101111101 01011010111101 10100100010100111 1110110101011111 010101001010101011 11111001011101001 111110111000011 11101101010101111 1001001000101101011 011001010101011110 111101111101001010 11111001001110011 1001101111101111 01001001110101011 10010 101100101001010111000 101011101010011001 010111110001110111 01010111111100101 001110100010111 10011111001101011 00111011111101 1101111001101000 10100010011010001011 010011100 11100110111110011 101100111111111 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  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 9749
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1855
  • Amount of lines: 299
  • 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; her, to, and, his, you, i, of, she, him, me, he, it, not, that, bed, had, how, my, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines the, to 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 23;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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