This is an analysis of the poem Beowulf (Episode 27) that begins with:
CAME now to ocean the ever-courageous
hardy henchmen, their harness bearing,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefddghceiabbcajkdeaacXjelhemglecdbbkfedmcjlXccdgmmliajccaXbjegegXjdjfdl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 75,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010010 101011010 10110101 101100101 0010011011 101111010 1100001101101 1011100111 110101110 1101101111 110010101 11010101 0100111011 100110111 11100111010 111110110 1110111001 011110101 100101101 101101011101 010010111 1101011001 111101010 1110100101 1110101 11110110 1011001011 1101011010 10101101101 11001011001 010111010 110101101 1101101010 11101101 10101001001 100101111 101110111 101101001 1011111 11101101 0110111101 101011001 1101100101 0101011111 11111101 111101111 10101001001 110100101 11101101 10111010 11111011110 1010101010 01111101 1100101101 10100101001 111100111 11011100 110111101 1011101011 100101011 11100111 100101101 100111101010 10111110 1010101 100111110 11010010100 1011011010 010100101 1100111011 1010111111 0111001011 10010010101 10101011 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3066
- Average number of words per stanza: 548
- Amount of lines: 75
- 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; to, and, she, that, of are repeated.
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