This is an analysis of the poem Beowulf (Episode 01) that begins with:
Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings,
leader beloved, and long he ruled ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcXadcebccbaaXcfgdbaaachahigXabhaihXbfXbXfieibiagjhaaibbajad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 62,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110010010 100101111 01011101011 0100110111 10101111 11100101 111011101 0010010101 1001101101 1111111 01000101 01011011001 1100101101 0111011101 0101101001 010100110 1010111001 1101110101 101010111 11101101111 11001101001 111101010 110010111 010010011110 010010110011 0101010110 1101101001 1100100111 1011011001 110101110 0100111111 1101101101 1111101101 01011011010 010100101 1111101010 10011111 1100101111 10010101 10010101 101100110 1010111 1010100110 11010101 01111111 010101111 1101001110 01011101 010101101 10010111 1101001110 0111010010 01010111 100100111 1101101001 110111010 1101111110 101010101 010111101 101111010 11101011001 101111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2529
- Average number of words per stanza: 461
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, of, and are repeated.
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- summary of Beowulf (Episode 01);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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