Normally repetition annoys me, but I like it here for two reasons. One, reading it in dactylic hexameter, it feels very soothing, and gives a nice lull to the sentences, it can also be fun to recognise where the sentence was used before - for example the description of the feasts (a girl poured from a silver-gold pitcher, another woman brought bread) is always the same.

But the second reason is the nice contrast which the same sentences can give in different contexts. Odysseus finding shelter under the trees in the rain (on Nausicaa's island) is described the same way as the boar in the forest that Odysseus killed in his youth - and in that situation he is like the boar: animalistic and dirty..

Or when on new land O. always asks the same things (what kind of land is this, are the people who live here barbarians or civilised? Etc) - this happens on the cyclops island, on the giant's island, at Nausicaa's and even on Ithaka - the answer to the question was quite different each time

But the latest that I enjoyed was in Ithaka where the sentence 'I hope Zeus provides you with what you want the most' means "kill the suitors" in both instances, but first it's said by Odysseus to his son who already recognised him - so this is a reminder of their secret plan - but the other time it is said by the suitors to Odysseus the beggar, who they obviously did not recognise. Makes the irony even more delicious!