This is an analysis of the poem Beowulf (Episode 17) that begins with:
THEN hastened those heroes their home to see,
friendless, to find the Frisian land, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbXefghgdgbXgafcijjklbiXddmbdXmbicXkiddiflbhleci XbXdXfcibXjjXXXmd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 51,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101101 10010101 10111101 101110101 101101110 1100011101 100101111 110111010 0101011010 101101111 0101111010 10011110110 1111111010 010011110110 11001011001 1101001010 1100100100 110110101 110100001010 1010101 011100101 11111111 1011101011 1101100101 1100101110 1011110010 1101011100 010101111 1011001110 0110101001 10100101 110110101 011100101 10100100111 1001 01110 0101111010 1110101 011001011101 1011110011 101101100101 10010010010 10101111110010 010010110111 01101101011 100011111 10011101 110100111 110101111 01011011010 11111111 110111110 110011101 1011001111 01001011011 1111111 011111011 110100111 101101111 101011001 110010110 11011111 1111000101 0111011100 1110011011000 101100101 1101001111 101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1466
- Average number of words per stanza: 257
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, the are repeated.
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More information about poems by Anonymous Olde English
- Analysis of Beowulf (Episode 15)
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