This is an analysis of the poem The Odyssey: Book 4 that begins with:

They reached the low lying city of Lacedaemon them where they
drove straight to the of abode Menelaus [and found him in his own...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 657,2,
  • 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: 21252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 4058
  • Amount of lines: 659
  • 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; of, his, and, he, to, them, you, i, have, much, for, so, him, her, should, had, my, our, in, me, your, ', us, seals, that, all, by, ships, we, they, on, who, their, come, about are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, the, you, will are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines of, the, was, had, to, and, you, my are repeated).

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

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