This is an analysis of the poem Beowulf (Episode 05) that begins with:
STONE-BRIGHT the street: it showed the way
to the crowd of clansmen. Corselets glistened ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdedfXcgbbfhiajdeXhbabXbeXffheXgdXcikabfXbXakXajX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 51,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 00101010010 11111101 011111101 0101011001 1100100101 111101111 11001010010 11011101 1001101010 1111101 110010001001 100101111 10111101 1011101 101011001 101010110 1111100111 111110110011 11101010110 1010011001 110010101 1011010001 1011111011 111001001010 0100101101 010101111 1111100110 10101010 110101011 0101101101 01011101 01001101110 011011010 110101101 101011110100 110101101 111101011 1011110101 0010101001 10100101 1001101111 100101010010 10100110101 010110111 11110101 11101111 010101010 0100100101 100110110110 010110010110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2211
- Average number of words per stanza: 374
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; to is 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 05);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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