This is an analysis of the poem Homer's Hymn To The Earth: Mother Of All that begins with:
O universal Mother, who dost keep
From everlasting thy foundations deep,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbd bbeefffbXXXggbdXccdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 0101010101 1001111101 1111110001 1111110101 1111110111 1011110101 11111111001 1111010100 0101010111 01110111101 10111111010 11100101110 1001010101 0101011101 1011110101 11001010111 01010101000 11010111010 11110101110 0110011101 10110011101 1101010111 110110010100 10011101010 11010101010 0101101100 1111011100000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 421
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; thy, and, be, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word divinity at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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