This is an analysis of the poem Beowulf (Episode 12) that begins with:
NOT in any wise would the earls'-defence
suffer that slaughterous stranger to live, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddecfgeeXedhidjcekfXbgekfakdeclXjlceeheajei
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110101 1011001001 10100110 011111011 0101101010 10101101 11101001 101111101 10101001 101111001 0100011101 1100101011 111111001 11110101010 01010101110 11110011 1010101001 11100101 11110101 100111001 110011101 1010010111 110110110100 1011001 1101001110 11010101 110101101 1011101011 0101101101 110100111 10011111 111010111 001110101 1110100111 01011001010 101010111 1100101111 0110100101 101010110 11101101 11010111 11011101 10101100 1010010111 1110101 010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1848
- Average number of words per stanza: 335
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, his are repeated.
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- summary of Beowulf (Episode 12);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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