This is an analysis of the poem Homer And Laertes that begins with:
Laertes: Gods help thee! and restore to thee thy sight!
My good old guest, I am more old than thou,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd efg ahc ib hhif acj h Xeg h X jbfdX akfd aXfeX g jebaaXa ceXfc cddXXjgXXiagXjkXhg aXiga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,2,4,3,1,3,1,1,5,4,5,1,7,5,18,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101111010111 1011111111 1111110011 01001010100 101011010111 01001010111 010101 101111 1111111111 1101111111 101001111101 0101110111 101111011111 1101110111 11011100111 1101110011 101101011111 1111110101 1111110111 100101111111 10101111110 1101111111 0101111111 101110111111010 101010101 101111010011 0100111001 1001010101 1111010100 01100 1010011 1101010101 0011010101 1010010 10111 0101111101 0101011001 1111000101 110100 110 10111 1111111101 1001111100 1101010111 0101011001 11011011000 1100110101 101101001101 1101010011 1101010101 1011001100 1010010 10111 0111100110 1100111100 01110111001 0101011000 1101110101 1011000111 1101010111 0101111111 1111001101 0101010001 1011010111 0111000111 0111010101 1000110100 0111001101 11010011111 10110 10011101 101111011101 111111001001 0101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; old, and, thou, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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