Shuffle mode doesn't shuffle very well

When I put on a playlist or even an entire genre in 'shuffle songs' mode I experience an irritating phenomenon. It will often go something like this:
In my "Rock" playlist of around 700 songs I'll get
Tom Petty
Mary Prankster
Triumph
Tom Petty
Van Halen
Tom Petty
The Doors
Van Halen
Nugent
GnR
Van Halen and so on...
It's consistent across my entire library. It seems like iTunes is shuffling within segments of the list of songs selected to play. I have all of my songs ripped in Apple Lossless. The files are huge. Could this be part of the problem?
As I'm writing this I'm listening the third Eagles song in 30 minutes. The playlist is almost three days long with over a hundred artists. Why isn't there a shuffle by 'artist' mode?
Any thoughts are appreciated.
...

Apple has not revealed the details of its shuffle algorithm. It is known that if you start shuffling a list, and don't fiddle with anything, it will play each song once without repeating any. But there are no options to control how the next song is chosen.
But your "irritation," as you describe it, may have another source. If you shuffle a list of tired songs that you don't really feel like hearing, each song that Shuffle picks will be a tired song that you don't really feel like hearing. Maybe it is time for some new music.

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