This is an analysis of the poem The Odyssey: Book 8 that begins with:

Now when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared,
Alcinous and Ulysses both rose, and Alcinous led the way to the...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdbbebfXghaiXdjkbilblmnojpjgjbffXbcqajbrifgccbdabscXqaiklcccjbbmaqmbcjgsanggMmXbbbehXXmmmtsdftjqcXgXmeujXlXbiljdaspXqgfXccjeqXcjrqmmmjgqbaqjcbXbbcjehaqagXjplsgcmbsammjblgqecXjhqfbqXXsmjjglcdmcqgfMmlXmabbqjmcamghXgcqmbimecmramqmXlacgcadmecXalbsqpqcXfcevj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 463,2,
  • 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: 15061
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2811
  • Amount of lines: 465
  • 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, to, and, in, you, they, him, had, she, for, he, his, son, i, it, not, with, man, have, been, that, we, as, her, them, which, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, not, with, a, him, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines the, sing, was, his, been, which are repeated).

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  • summary of The Odyssey: Book 8;
  • central theme;
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