This is an analysis of the poem Beowulf (Episode 06) that begins with:
HROTHGAR answered, helmet of Scyldings: --
"I knew him of yore in his youthful days; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXbbcdabbdbXdefcXgbaagfedhXidjkbbbXfhalgXifgilgkbmgdmgfandllXldffdijaniblifffhilfdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 86,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010010 10110100101 01101101 011111001 010101111 110010111 11011110 1101100101 101111101 101001001 0101011 100100111 0100111101 01100101101 001110101 010111010 101001011 110111101 0100100 001001 10110101 1010101101 110111111 10101111 1010101001 1111101010 11010101 11101011110 110111010 1001011001 110101101 101101101 1111101010 101010101 101110111 10110111 111011001 101011001 1111001010 111011101 1101111001 11011101 0101111010 101101101 001001001001 11100111 1110101 110100111 1111111111 011110101 110011111 11111010111 101101110 0100101111 10011101 10100101 01010101 11000101 10100111 110010101 110111101 1101011001 01011101 111101010 0010101011 111111001 10110101 1110001001 110110101 111011111 10111100 0010011111 11100111 001011101 011011101 110101111 011110110 10101111 11110101111 10010001010 01111001001 110111101 0100101111 10111011 1010011010 11010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3509
- Average number of words per stanza: 626
- Amount of lines: 86
- 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, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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