This is an analysis of the poem Beowulf (Episode 02) that begins with:

WENT he forth to find at fall of night
that haughty house, and heed wherever ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeaXfadXgcdXaXdeacahaaccfcidXjXXcihjafdafgiaaXcgXkcidficdXfhkXadbciXhdf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 74,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011101 110111010 01110000111 101001001 011010110010 0101010001 111011100 101001010 1000101111 100111010 100100101 1101011110 010100111 1101011100 110010101 100100101 10011010010 1110101001 1010110110 1111011010 010100101 101011011 100100111 1010011111 01011111 1001011111 110101010 011011101 11110101 111001101 101101101 1101011011 11101011 1001010010 10111100 10100101 01001110010 011011111 11011001001 11000101 0101001001 110111011 110011101 1110100101 1010111111 11111101 111001001 010111111 10101110 11001001001 10101010 100101010110 1110101 111010101 11001111001 110100101 1101001010 101011110 100111101 01010100111 111011010 10100101 10100111010 10101101100 110111110 01011010111 10011101 1101010110 100101111 101110101 010001011011 011101111 1101111001 110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3075
  • Average number of words per stanza: 525
  • Amount of lines: 74
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; too, in, and, of, their, they are repeated.

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  • summary of Beowulf (Episode 02);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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