A surface-form portrait of this Odyssey: corpus scale, recurring wording, line-window variation around Greek forms, and a comparison with other hexameter verse translations.
Atlas edition year: 1889 · Statistics corpus year: 1889 · All 24 books
128,485words
11,715distinct word forms
0.0912vocabulary variety (distinct ÷ total)
30.32average sentence length
Comparison basis: other hexameter verse translations (6 peers). Each metric has its own scale. Cross-language style-group values are descriptive only.
Repeated wording
The translator’s formulas
The ten repeated phrases of three to six words that rank highest when we multiply how often each phrase appears by its length. Overlapping phrases can describe the same recurring line.
“alzoo sprak hij”126 occurrences · Od. 1.125 and 1.365
“alzoo sprak hij en”78 occurrences · Od. 1.365 and 2.224
“sprak hij en”79 occurrences · Od. 1.365 and 2.224
“de gevleugelde woorden”51 occurrences · Od. 1.80 and 2.267
“de schrandre telemachos weder”32 occurrences · Od. 1.178 and 1.230
“toen antwoordde hem”38 occurrences · Od. 1.80 and 14.191
“in de woning”37 occurrences · Od. 1.325 and 1.365
“alzoo sprak hij en allen”22 occurrences · Od. 1.365 and 3.404
“toen antwoordde hem weder de”22 occurrences · Od. 14.191 and 14.360
“de schrandre telemachos”36 occurrences · Od. 1.178 and 1.230
Line-window evidence
One Greek word, many choices
Each card follows one Greek word into three visibly different passages in this translation. The Greek line containing the word appears first, followed by the nearby passage in the translation. The listed nearby words show recurring context, not direct translations of the Greek word.
δῖος
diosrecurring nearby word 6%
τὴν μὲν ἰδὼν γήθησε πολύτλας δῖος Ὀδυσσεύς·
Greek line · Od. 24.504
Vreugde vervulde, haar ziende, den godlijken dulder Odusseus;
Vosmaer’s Dutch hexameter Odyssey, completed near the end of his life, joined his Iliad as a paired Homer that remained prominent for decades. The corpus contains 128485 words and 11715 distinct word forms. Its score-ranked formula list begins with “alzoo sprak hij,” recorded 126 times; this first position does not mean it has the highest raw count. For scale within other hexameter verse translations, Voß contains 109003 words. Read together, the atlas context and corpus evidence show how this version occupies its declared cohort without converting length, vocabulary counts, or recurrence into claims about merit, fidelity, intention, or reception. These measures offer a compact view of the textual evidence available here. The emphasis remains on directly observable features of the supplied corpora.
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