This is an analysis of the poem Beowulf (Episode 11) that begins with:
THEN from the moorland, by misty crags,
with God's wrath laden, Grendel came. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcXdcefdcXdeXgghi dXegjeakeblhmmhcdXeXfahdedelbdgdednimjdenkXakhhnidXgmmXkgdXgaeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,63,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111101 01110101 0101100111 100100101 101011101101 110111001 100101110 11010101 1100111110 1101011101 0010100101 1001010100 101111011 10 1101100101 010111001 101110111 1001111001 10101101 11010101 11101001 101001101 10101101111 100100101 101011010 100011011 011010111 101101001 10011011 11110101 1101011001 1011010100 10111110010 01111101 10111101 010111010 1011111011 1010100111 11010101 101001011010 10101101 111110010 1101100101 001010101 0100111111 10001101001 11110101 010101101 1111110101 11010101001 0011101110 11011101 0111101110 010101111 010111101 1001101010 0010011101 0100100111 110101001 10101101 10111001 1101101100 10010111 0010110101 011111101 0110110101 100111101 100111111 101101110 1111001010 1110111101 111111010 111011010 010100110 10101001 011100111 10011101 11100101 100101001 0100111011 110101110 01110011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1681
- Average number of words per stanza: 295
- Amount of lines: 82
- 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; he, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, that are repeated.
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- summary of Beowulf (Episode 11);
- central theme;
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