Analysis of Odysseus
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
Seeking to find his home, Odysseus crosses each water;
Through Charybdis so dread; ay, and through Scylla's wild yells,
Through the alarms of the raging sea, the alarms of the land too,--
E'en to the kingdom of hell leads him his wandering course.
And at length, as he sleeps, to Ithaca's coast fate conducts him;
There he awakes, and, with grief, knows not his fatherland now.
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101111010010110 1111101111 1001101010011011 111010111111001 011111110011011 111011111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 406 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 49 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 292 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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