This is an analysis of the poem Beowulf (The Prelude) that begins with:
PRELUDE OF THE FOUNDER OF THE DANISH HOUSE
LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdbefgXehfdhijgdgbkhbfbd hcXgXckXcbjgXkfifadgccgakbh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,25,27,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001000101 1100100101 01110111 111111001001 1101001001 010010111 10011111 100101011 11110100111 1011011111 1110111011 1110011 011111001 010011101 010011011 1111111110 110101011 0100100101 110101110101 10100101 1010010111 001011111 101110101 1100101111 100101101 11111001001 111101010 101001001 11111001010 101011110 11010101 0100101111 0010101110 110111001 11111101 10100101001 101010110010 10111001 111111101 0100111010 0111110101 0111111 11001011001 111100101 101101111 101011111 11010101 1100111010 0111011011 1101010110 101111010 010111001 11011011011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 744
- Average number of words per stanza: 136
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
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