Analysis of Homer's Hymn To Minerva
I sing the glorious Power with azure eyes,
Athenian Pallas! tameless, chaste, and wise,
Tritogenia, town-preserving Maid,
Revered and mighty; from his awful head
Whom Jove brought forth, in warlike armour dressed,
Golden, all radiant! wonder strange possessed
The everlasting Gods that Shape to see,
Shaking a javelin keen, impetuously
Rush from the crest of Aegis-bearing Jove;
Fearfully Heaven was shaken, and did move
Beneath the might of the Cerulean-eyed;
Earth dreadfully resounded, far and wide;
And, lifted from its depths, the sea swelled high
In purple billows, the tide suddenly
Stood still, and great Hyperion’s son long time
Checked his swift steeds, till, where she stood sublime,
Pallas from her immortal shoulders threw
The arms divine; wise Jove rejoiced to view.
Child of the Aegis-bearer, hail to thee,
Nor thine nor others’ praise shall unremembered be.
Scheme | AABCDDEFGGHHGEIIJGEE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 110100101101 0100101101 110101 0101011101 111101101 10110010101 001011111 10010011 1101110101 110110011 01011011 11001101 0101110111 0101001100 11011111 1111111101 1010010101 0101110111 1101010111 111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 869 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 700 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 137 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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