This is an analysis of the poem Beowulf (Episode 22) that begins with:
BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: --
"Have mind, thou honored offspring of Healfdene...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcbdXccbbebXbdcXbefccgfXhfabXbabbfXiaXheXgXjabbabbXdiegXcbXhXaekbjheXbXckbgXhbefa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 84,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 10111011010 1101111101 1011111 00110111 111111101 011100101 010010010110 1100101111 101011101 1001001001 10111101 10111111010 1111011101 1101110110100 111010101 111001110 1010101 11010111110 101101011 10101010 10110101 11001011001 111101001 110110101 110111010 1011111001 111100101 111110101 10100111011 010101110 1110100101 01100101 1101111011 0101001110 1101110101 1001011010 110111110 10110101 1110101111 1110111111 110101111 110111110 100110011 10011101 1010011011001 11101101 1101101011 111011101 0111101001 010101101 01010111 0101111101 1101111010 11101110 1010110101 11111010 1001110011 10110110100 01011101 111101110 11011111 0100111011 10111101 1111011010 010111010 11011101 010111101 11011111 010111001 1010100100 100101110 101111011011 111101001 011110101 1011101 010100111 111101101 101111101 1010011101 10111101 1001001010 010100101 110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3466
- Average number of words per stanza: 627
- Amount of lines: 84
- 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, she, he, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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- summary of Beowulf (Episode 22);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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