This is an analysis of the poem Homer's Battle Of The Frogs And Mice. Book Ii that begins with:

When rosy-finger'd Morn had ting'd the Clouds,
Around their Monarch-Mouse the Nation crouds,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbX aaccbbddeecccc aaaaccccaaffggddcc hhiiee ffjj kkXccchhbbllbbbbddccii hhahccccffbb aahhddccaaaa aabb cceeXb aaccmmffiiccffllddddbbccaaeeXfddaaddXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,14,18,6,4,22,12,12,4,6,39,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101011101 0111110101 1101110101 1101010110 1110011101 1101010101 1111011101 1101011101 1101010101 1111011001 1111010101 01010011101 10101010101 1110011101 0101010101 1001110001 1101110101 1111110101 01010101001 1101101101 01011000111 01001010101 11011101001 1001000111 0111011101 1101110101 11001000101 1101011101 1001010101 0101010101 0101010101 11110101001 1101010101 0101100001 0101010101 1101100101 11010101001 1101010101 1101110001 0101010101 1111010101 1111110101 0101010101 1101010101 1101111111 1101010101 1111010101 1101000101 1101110101 1100010101 0101110101 1111011101 1101011101 1101010101 1101011101 0101010101 1101110101 1011010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 11110100101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010111 0101010101 11110010001 1111010101 01001000101 1101010101 0111010101 10010011101 11010010101 1001010101 11010101001 1101110101 00110101001 11111110101 1011110101 111100101101 010100101 0101010101 1001011101 01010011101 1100110101 1111010101 1101110111 11010110101 10111101001 1101010101 1111110101 0101010101 11010011101 11110100101 1101110101 1101001101 1101111101 1111011111 1101011101 1101010111 1101010001 1101000101 1101011101 0111011101 0111010101 1101110001 1111010101 11001110111 11110110001 01110010101 0101010111 0101010111 1011110101 0011010101 0101010101 1111011101 1111111101 1101010111 0101011101 1101011101 1101111101 1111010111 1111010101 11010011101 1111011101 1001010101 0101010101 0101010111 1101010101 1111010110 1101010001 1101111111 0101000101 1101010101 1101110101 10101010101 1001010111 1101110101 1110010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 530
  • Average number of words per stanza: 90
  • Amount of lines: 140
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, their, his, my, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words three, the, what, and, when are repeated.

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  • summary of Homer's Battle Of The Frogs And Mice. Book Ii;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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