This is an analysis of the poem Homer's Hymn To Castor And Pollux that begins with:
Ye wild-eyed Muses, sing the Twins of Jove,
Whom the fair-ankled Leda, mixed in love... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbccaadXeebbffdXbbgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010101 1011010101 01010100101 1100110101 1101110101 1101010101 11010111101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010100 1101010111 1001010101 1101011101 1011010101 101010100101 01001110001 1101100101 1101011000 1101101101 11000100111 0101010001 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 963
- Average number of words per stanza: 171
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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