This is an analysis of the poem The Odyssey: Book 6 that begins with:

So here Ulysses slept, overcome by sleep and toil; but Minerva
went off to the country and city of the Phaecians- a people who used...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdebbfbghXfgaibbjkebkalllcghmXmjdlhedcnefebmknikneXombeXXlXiambplffakmjinlblnacenkleeXafckcolmqbbiiXalgXkrqcsiombfaagXanafkgneckkdfmbcqnepogmmcfkkmalXegoclmeqXccngbnblXpXnXlanseqXgosebkoaboaqgclimcXbbnmgnmaaqmabapaggkcbkmlbdmfccfhablfenbrXabnnnfedbqfgbp
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 274,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010110111111010 110010110001001011 010011010010101001 0100010111100111 1001011100010101 101010100100011101 101010010101011111 1001010111001100 010010111000110 0101010000010010 1110010010101101 1101111101010100 1001100111001010 1101011101001111 101110101010100 1011010101101010 10011011110100111 10101110100111 1000111101001011010 1011111100010111 10001011010001111001 1101110111101 1000101100011011 101101010111110110 1011111110111111 111101101111001101 1101111011011111 10001011101110110 10101110111110101 1110111111001 10011110101010111 0010 11110010101001011 10010101001111110 11011111100101010 111001100010101 11010110110010101 010111110010001 11110111100101100 01011111001010010 10101101010110011 10101101010110010 1001010111001010 111110100101000110 101010010111111 100111100111001101 10111101001011011 0111100101111101 11101100010010111 11110010101011 01010111111011 10111001111010011 10 10110101011011011 010101111011011 1111011101101011 011110011000100010 111100 1011010001011010 1100111001011 011001011101010 01001001000100110 0110111010111000 101010101001010111 101010101111011 11101110111111 1001011101101101 10100101011011010 00 11101011100 10101111111011 10011010001011011011 10000111010110110 101110101110110 01010001011010100 1000010101110111 01101111011011 101110110101101 100111000101011 1111010100111010 1010100111111011 101110111010111 110011010100101101 010010011000011111 101110010101111 010010101110010101 110101010101000101 1001010100111010 101110011110100 1110000010010010010 1010111110101110 101001000100111 101110011101100 110101110101111 0101110010110101010 110 100011001101010111 0111101010100111001 0111010100110111 11001111011010 1011101111011101010 11101110110100101110 111011010011110 11001101010011 111000100110101000 110101111011111 01010111110100101 11000011111001101 1010010100110111100 11011111101111011 01111000110010101 01011101000110100 100111010110000111 01110011101001011 10101111001011011 01011010111111100 011111110100100 1110101000010010 1111010101010101 110100100101010 101011100111111110 1011101010011010110 1011100101111010010 11111001011001010 111010111111011 1011011011110110 11101011111111010 110101001110110010 101101100101111 00111101110111001011 101110101011011111001 10011111111111010 1010001011111011010 1111111011001011 101010101111001 1111101011010010111 01110110111111111 01011011010011110 10010101011111011 010010010111111010 11110111010011111 11111001001101101 11100111 1011111001111101101 11111111001011010 1111111011111110 01110110110111 101010110101011 1010100011111110 0110010100110010 10111110111010 110100 0010010100101000100 101101010101111 01000111111101111 111110111101001 1101111001101111 11111011101000011 10001110110100110 1101011011110111 1001000101100010100 1110111101111 11111010110010111 11101010100101110111 11011101011111001 11011011110001011 1100101010100010111 1110111101011101 100001110100101011 11110101110110 100111111001111 10100010 1001111001101101 0101110101100101100 11011101111101 10101010111101100 11010110101010101 11111101011010111 01100101111110101 010110111111110111 01010101000101100 1111111101011010 1010011101001 100110111100101 11101100110100101 11101101110101011 1110110101110101 11101001111011 1011011011010111010 10101110101110101 0100100101011100101 0101011111101011010 11011110101111 01010111001 10111110110101011 101011010010111 1111111100100110 01110101111101000 1101011001110111110 101110111001110 10110111101010111 110001011111110101 1110010000101011010 1011001011101111 10111010 100011101110101001 101011101011001011 111110110110010 10101111111111000 10010111111010111 11010010100100111 01011110011011100 1110101110110100 1011010010100001010 10011101111001101 101111101010100 1001000100011011 100011101011011 1110111111010111 110101101001011 10011110110110111 01111111011101 1001 101010010110110111 011101101011101101 1110011111100110 101010010100101111 01101001010110010010 111100110101111 10111111110100100 0111010010110100 101000101110101111 11010111110111100 10100110110010001 001000111010111111 011111101011101010 110111010101010101 0101100101101100 100010101 101111110011101101 111111110101001010 10111000001001010010 11110111010101101 0111001101101011 11110110101110001 11110111111111 01000111010010110 1001011100001001010 10101111100111101 1101111111111011 1010111010101111 011010101010101100 101110000011010111 1011001010011101 010011101101111 110110101101111101 101111010101111 1001110101110111 10011101100110 11011010011110 1001111111111010 111101011110101011 01001101001011101 0101011101110010 1001011010111100 101001 101011100010101100 111111110111101 10111111001111111 111010000110100 101110101011111 1010110011101001010 11110000010001010010 1 01011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 8975
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1728
  • Amount of lines: 276
  • Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 13
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, to, you, for, her, have, they, in, them, out, he, happy, i, that, your, him, she, as, it are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of The Odyssey: Book 6;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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