This is an analysis of the poem Beowulf (Episode 09) that begins with:
ME thus often the evil monsters
thronging threatened. With thrust of my sword, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccadedfgegdXdbafcXdbdXehiehijXehcbccXcaakXbclXmbnjnloiXcadn ohebbebcgbeXdeilkaXbbcimogbihdcanibbbdXhdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 61,42,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001010 101001011 010110101 1011101101 00101101010 1001011001 1110111111 101010111 1011011110 1010011101 110010101 111100101 11110111 10111110 110001100 1101111011 1001001110 1110101101 101101011001 1110101011 1101001101 10011101 010101101 11111110010 10101011 1101100101 11011111 010111100 1110101101 11011101 011111111 1110111010 101101111 101011101 0101100101 0110111101 111111010 011101101 1111001010 11010101 00101110010 1111111 011111001 111101011001 11110101 111101101 0101010101 1011001110 101101010 11111010 01101010110 10101101 111001001010 01011101 1010100100 11100101 1011101001 1001101110 110110101 01010110011 101101011 1011101010 010110101 100111010 1011101010 0101101001 110011111 0101100110 11110100111 1100100111 10010101 11010010110 10111010 10111111011 1001011011 1111000110 10110101 011111101 11111101 001010011100 11100101 10101101 010110111 01110101 101011010 011101100 010101001 110111110 110101101 1010011111 11011101 110011101 1101001001 1011101 100101111 11101101110 10001011110 11111111 010111101 111101100 0101101101 110111111 0110010011100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2136
- Average number of words per stanza: 385
- Amount of lines: 103
- 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; of, thy, he, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, shall, the, and are repeated.
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- summary of Beowulf (Episode 09);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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