Analysis of Glory
During the years he was away from Penelope
Odysseus received quite a number of sexual proposals
from the most beautiful women in Greece.
And as he thanked wholeheartedly
these anonymous Goddesses of Greek temptation
for their silken invitations to passion
Odysseus said that he would respond
as soon as the Universal Community was informed
about the Trojan War.
It had a right to know no matter what
how he went to Troy embodied in the very tempests
not in order to provoke heartache and Catastrophe
but simply to vent the anger of Greece
over its lost honor
saying it had entered the wrong Soul.
The Universal Community however
was informed solely by the Poets
and even then very tardily.
So then Odysseus
the virtuoso mercenary of Glory
ended with the thought
that if he had been truly loved
by the most beautiful women in Greece
he would have emerged from this History
utterly without glory.
From what can be seen
this story would always be defined
by the Poets alone
and these Erotic tales would simply
be called poetic.
The Universal Community
would deem them unbelievable.
Translation by PHILIP RAMP
Scheme | ABC ADDXXX XBACEF EXF XAXXCAA XXXAXAX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001110110100 01000110101100010 1011001001 01111000 1010010011010 1110010110 0100111101 11100100100101 010101 1101111101 1111101000101 1010101100100 1101101011 101110 101110011 0010010010 1011001010 0101101 110100 00010100110 10101 11111101 1011001001 1110111100 1000110 11111 11011101 101001 010101110 11010 00100100 1110100 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,073 |
Words | 190 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 6, 6, 3, 7, 7, 1 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on October 29, 2014
Modified on March 14, 2023
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