This is an analysis of the poem Homer's Hymn To The Sun that begins with:
Offspring of Jove, Calliope, once more
To the bright Sun, thy hymn of music pour;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccccXd ddeeffffeegg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 0011110101 10010111011 100011111 100001101 01010010101 01010010011 1111110101 0111100101 11110010111 100001000100 0101100101 10110101001 0101010101 1111011101 01000100101 0101011101 1011010111 0110010001 1001001101 0101111001 1111010101 1011010111 101100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 523
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; of, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word euryphaessa is repeated.
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- summary of Homer's Hymn To The Sun;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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