This is an analysis of the poem Beowulf (Episode 03) that begins with:
THUS seethed unceasing the son of Healfdene
with the woe of these days; not wisest men ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbc adefegbabhdXdaidXijhgfcikgaidilhjcgXidkeiclamdghdikXhgXgdmhdhgeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,64,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001001010 0010111101 0101011010 101111101 110001011001 010011001 101101010 1101001010 01110011 1011001110 11110110111 1100111111 010111101 010101101 110111111 11001011010 110110101 1110100100 101110111 011111101 10100111 111101101 11011111 100101010 1010101 1010011101 111100111 101010111 111001011001 111010101 1010110101 0111111 11011101 1110111 10111011 110101110 01010101 1011101010 11010111 110011001001 1100101010 010110101 111100101001 1101001011 011100110 10010111 10100101 110111010 10111111 11111010 111100101 1100100101 1001100111 110100101 01011101 11001011110 10101101 10110101 11010010111 01000110101 1100101101 10110010010 0101011111 11111111 010101111 010111001 10100101 1001010010 11001011100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1420
- Average number of words per stanza: 253
- Amount of lines: 69
- 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; of, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Beowulf (Episode 03);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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