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

Now Front to Front the marching Armies shine,
Halt e'er they meet, and form the length'ning Line,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffggddhhcchhaaccddbbhhhhiiffjjXklleeccggjjhhhheeddbbXcaaaakkjjccmmbbcciiccjjbbjjcckkccbbaaddhhbbjjccjjjjaacc jjkkffcchhcckkiiaa aakkccddbb cccchhbbjjddii jjiiccjjnnaabb eekjeeccjjhhccdd cXddccbbeeXjjaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,110,18,10,14,14,16,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010101 11011110101 01010011101 1011010101 1101011101 01011001001 1101010101 1111010101 1001011001 11100001001 0101010101 1111000101 1001010101 0111010101 1001110101 1101010101 0111010001 0101010101 1101010101 1111110001 100001101 0111000101 1110000101 1110100101 1100010101 1101110001 1101010111 1101010101 0110001101 0101010101 1101110001 0101010101 0101010101 1101010101 11010010101 11001110101 10010001001 1001111101 1101010101 1101010101 0101100010 1101010101 10111101001 1101010101 10010000101 10010100001 1011010101 1001000101 1011010101 1101010101 1000100001 1001110101 1001011101 1101010101 0110000101 1101000111 1011010101 1101110101 01010000101 1101110101 110010101001 0101110101 1101010110 1111100001 1101110101 1101110101 0101010001 1001010101 100001001 01011100101 0101010101 1101010101 11100001001 1100010101 11110010101 1101010101 1101100101 1111110101 1001010101 1101011001 0101010101 0101010101 0110001001 1011010101 010110101001 1000111101 0111010001 01010101001 0111011101 1110010101 1001010101 0110010101 1101010101 1110000101 1101010101 1101010101 11010011001 1101010101 0110000101 1001010001 1101010101 0111010101 1101010101 111000010101 1110010001 10101000101 1101010101 1001110001 1001010101 11010010101 0111010101 11010001010 110101101 0101000101 1101010101 1101001101 11010011001 1101110101 11010100101 0101110100 10010110001 1101010101 0101010101 1100000101 01001000101 10101000101 1101010101 1101000101 1101010101 11110101001 1101111101 0111010101 1101010001 1101011101 1101010101 01001111111 1101111101 11001000101 110101001001 01101010001 0111010001 10010101001 1101010101 110110101 1110010101 0101010001 1101000101 11010010011 1101110101 0101000101 1101110101 0101110101 1111010101 1101000101 1111110101 1111110001 1101111101 1101010101 1101010101 1110001101 11110000101 1001011001 1101010101 0101010101 1111010101 1111010101 01011000101 1101010101 1101000101 1101000101 1101011101 1011010101 1111010111 0101010101 1001010101 1101010101 11001011101 1111010101 0101010111 0101110101 1101001101 0101011101 1111110101 10001011101 0101111101 1111101101 11110101001 1101010101 1101010101 0111011111 11010001101 0101010111 1101010101 1011010111 1011110101 01010101001 1001010101 1101011101 10011011111 1101010101 1101000101 110110101 1011110110 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1011
  • Average number of words per stanza: 170
  • Amount of lines: 204
  • 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; his, and, their are repeated.

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

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

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