Analysis of Homer
Andrew Lang 1844 (Selkirk, Scottish Borders) – 1912 (Banchory)
Homer, thy song men liken to the sea
With all the notes of music in its tone,
With tides that wash the dim dominion
Of Hades, and light waves that laugh in glee
Around the isles enchanted; nay, to me
Thy verse seems as the River of source unknown
That glasses Egypt's temples overthrown
In his sky-nurtured stream, eternally.
No wiser we than men of heretofore
To find thy sacred fountains guarded fast;
Enough, thy flood makes green our human shore,
As Nilus Egypt, rolling down his vast
His fertile flood, that murmurs evermore
Of gods dethroned, and empires in the past.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011110101 1101110011 111101010 1100111101 0101010111 11110101101 110101001 0111010100 110111101 1111010101 01111110101 111010111 110111010 11010100001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 568 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 228 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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