![]() ![]() Then the work is progressively advancing to a more epic form, with the second poem written in rhyming decapentasyllable and the final one a decapentasyllable without rhyme. The first poem, in chronological order, is considered to be a lyric draft. It is not a single work, but consists of three separate poems in fragmentary form. The Free Besieged was composed in a period of more than twenty years (1828–1851). ![]() This event inspired Dionysios Solomos, the national poet of Greece, to compose The Free Besieged, which refers to the struggle of the defenders. The siege and the subsequent sortie were one of the most stirring events of the Greek Revolution (1821–1830) and in fact the besieging forces were so overwhelming that there was no doubt about the result of the struggle. However, the defenders managed to keep the city for almost one year, but a number of factors like the numerically superior strength of the Ottomans, the continuous assaults and the lack of food and other supplies led them to decide a heroic sortie on the night of 10 April 1826. On April 15, 1825, the invading Ottoman armies in Central Greece besieged the city of Missolonghi for the third time. ![]()
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