This is an analysis of the poem Homer's Hymn To Venus that begins with:
Muse, sing the deeds of golden Aphrodite,
Who wakens with her smile the lulled delight... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdabaeeffggXbbbbbXXhhcceecc XccXbbiXhhgggdacc eecXffbXccii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,17,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010101010 1100010101 010101000101 01011110101 1101011101 1100010100 1001000101 11111010 1101110111 0101011111 11110010101 01001011101 01010101 0111110111 0011010 1101010101 0101110101 0011111101 1101110101 1101010101 1100010101 1101010101 1101010111 11110001101 0101111100 0101011101 01110011001 1111100011 01001010101 0101000100 11010111100 1101011111 0011110111 11010101100 1101011101 0101010101 11110101010 01010101100 0110011101 1011010101 1001 010101010010 11011001010 1111010101 1101000100 11010010100 0101010001 1101001111 1101110101 1110000101 01010011100 1101100101 1101011100 11110100001 01100 10010101010 00110101010 1101111011 11010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 813
- Average number of words per stanza: 143
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, in, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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