SKALD Worsley · 1861 All analyses Translation Atlas Reader’s guide

English · Verse · Spenserian stanzas

Philip Stanhope Worsley

A surface-form portrait of this Odyssey: corpus scale, recurring wording, line-window variation around Greek forms, and a comparison with other English translations.

Atlas edition year: 1861 · Statistics corpus year: 1861 · All 24 books

116,110words
8,027distinct word forms
0.0691vocabulary variety (distinct ÷ total)
23.65average sentence length
Worsley compared with other English translations Copper bars show this translation; pale bars show the peer median for four surface-form metrics. Worsley Peer median Words 116,110 median 123,889.5 Distinct word forms 8,027 median 6,650 Vocabulary variety 0.0691 median 0.0564 Average sentence length 23.65 median 27.28

Comparison basis: other English translations (12 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.

  1. “o er the” 73 occurrences · Od. 1.80 and 1.178
  2. “and in the” 44 occurrences · Od. 1.125 and 2.39
  3. “but when the” 44 occurrences · Od. 1.1 and 1.125
  4. “and to the” 38 occurrences · Od. 2.1 and 3.276
  5. “and on the” 33 occurrences · Od. 1.421 and 2.129
  6. “at the last” 28 occurrences · Od. 4.315 and 4.675
  7. “and in his” 27 occurrences · Od. 1.230 and 3.404
  8. “he spake and” 26 occurrences · Od. 2.224 and 8.295
  9. “in the hall” 24 occurrences · Od. 2.388 and 4.1
  10. “wary wise odysseus” 23 occurrences · Od. 2.177 and 7.198

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

dios recurring nearby word 4%
  • ἡμένη ἐν θαλάμῳ· ὁ δʼ ἐδείπνεε δῖος Ὀδυσσεύς·
    Greek line · Od. 17.506
    through long wanderings led, Naked and cold and overwhelmed with woe, And in his hunger asks a little bread. Then all the
    Translation passage · Od. 17.506 · nearby words: asks, bread, cold, hunger
  • υἱέες Αὐτολύκου· μετὰ τοῖσι δὲ δῖος Ὀδυσσεὺς
    Greek line · Od. 19.437
    secret woodland, where Never the Sun pierced with his beaming ray, Nor the moist breathings of the wintry air Blew,
    Translation passage · Od. 19.437 · nearby words: air, beaming, blew, breathings
  • ἢ οὐκ ἀίεις οἷον κλέος ἔλλαβε δῖος Ὀρέστης
    Greek line · Od. 1.298
    performed, devise and learn How best amid wild wassail, there and then, Whether by fraud or force, to slay these evil men. 42
    Translation passage · Od. 1.298 · nearby words: amid, best, devise, force

πεπνυμένος

pepnymenos recurring nearby word 8%
  • τὴν δʼ αὖ Τηλέμαχος πεπνυμένος ἀντίον ηὔδα·
    Greek line · Od. 1.306
    they tire—take heed and be not weak." 43 To whom the sage Telemachus replied : " Guidance from friendly spirit thou dost impart,
    Translation passage · Od. 1.306 · nearby words: dost, friendly, guidance, heed
  • τοῖσι δὲ Τηλέμαχος πεπνυμένος ἤρχετο μύθων·
    Greek line · Od. 15.502
    attained the isle. His comrades furl the sails, the mast take down, And to the harbour row the vessel on, Cast anchor, tie the
    Translation passage · Od. 15.502 · nearby words: anchor, attained, cast, comrades
  • τὴν δʼ αὖ Τηλέμαχος πεπνυμένος ἀντίον ηὔδα·
    Greek line · Od. 17.107
    war, To Sparta’s hold he bade me voyage make, And lent me horses and a well-built car. There I saw Argive Helen,
    Translation passage · Od. 17.107 · nearby words: argive, bade, built, car

φίλος

philos recurring nearby word 7%
  • καὶ σὺ φίλος μάλα χαῖρε, θεοὶ δέ τοι ὄλβια δοῖεν.
    Greek line · Od. 8.413
    silver-hilted brand ; And, the sun falling, stately heralds bring Into Alcinous’ halls the presents grand ; Which soon the
    Translation passage · Od. 8.413 · nearby words: alcinous, brand, bring, falling
  • καὶ σύ, φίλος, μάλα γάρ σʼ ὁρόω καλόν τε μέγαν τε,
    Greek line · Od. 1.301
    not heard divine Orestes’ fame, Who slew the secret slayer of the king His father, and achieved a noble name ? Thou also, friend,
    Translation passage · Od. 1.301 · nearby words: achieved, also, fame, friend
  • ὣς δʼ αὔτως ἠρᾶτο Ὀδυσσῆος φίλος υἱός.
    Greek line · Od. 3.64
    afar Sail ye the watery ways ? After some star Of purpose, or, at random blown about, Range ye
    Translation passage · Od. 3.64 · nearby words: about, afar, after, blown

τόξον

toxon recurring nearby word 20%
  • πρὶν τούτους τόδε τόξον ἐΰξοον ἀμφαφόωντας
    Greek line · Od. 19.586
    appear Ere they the nerve stretch of this burnished bow, Or shoot a winged shaft through the iron row." And him
    Translation passage · Od. 19.586 · nearby words: appear, bow, burnished, ere
  • ὅς οἱ τόξον ἔδωκε. τὸ δʼ οὔ ποτε δῖος Ὀδυσσεὺς
    Greek line · Od. 21.38
    from the ring the loop untwined, and bore Inward the key with deft aim to repel The firm bolts,
    Translation passage · Od. 21.38 · nearby words: aim, bolts, bore, deft
  • εὖ μὲν τόξον οἶδα ἐύξοον ἀμφαφάασθαι·
    Greek line · Od. 8.215
    eat bread ; Though not that strength which older time hath nursed To rival I aspire ; such heroes dread As once
    Translation passage · Od. 8.215 · nearby words: aspire, bread, dread, eat

συβώτης

sybōtēs recurring nearby word 9%
  • ἔστη ἐνὶ προθύροισι. ταφὼν δʼ ἀνόρουσε συβώτης,
    Greek line · Od. 16.12
    hands let fall the bowls, whereon He laboured mixing wine, and came anon Straight to his master, and fell
    Translation passage · Od. 16.12 · nearby words: anon, bowls, laboured, master
  • ἀντίθεοι μνηστῆρες, ἐπεὶ προΐαλλε συβώτης
    Greek line · Od. 14.18
    upon his wonted seat Framed sandals, and of ox the shining hide Cut, deftly shaping it about his feet.
    Translation passage · Od. 14.18 · nearby words: about, cut, deftly, framed
  • ἀλλʼ ἐπετόλμησε, φρεσὶ δʼ ἔσχετο· τὸν δὲ συβώτης
    Greek line · Od. 17.238
    thy finery to the wind, Wherein rejoicing thou the poor dost spurn, Roaming the city, while with evil mind Bad
    Translation passage · Od. 17.238 · nearby words: bad, city, dost, finery

Statistical comparison

Against its siblings

Worsley builds his Odyssey in the stanza associated with Spenser, openly defending that choice against contemporary objections and sustaining it across the complete poem. The corpus contains 116110 words and 8027 distinct word forms. Its score-ranked formula list begins with “o er the,” recorded 73 times; this first position does not mean it has the highest raw count. For scale within other English translations, Murray contains 133986 words. This is a bounded comparison: the history identifies the translation’s formal setting, while the statistics locate its scale and verbal patterning among the peers actually declared in the source. These measures offer a compact view of the textual evidence available here. The emphasis remains on directly observable features of the supplied corpora. That focus keeps the comparison useful without asking the data to support more than it can.

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