This is an analysis of the poem Episode 38 that begins with:
I HAVE heard that swiftly the son of Weohstan
at wish and word of his wounded king, --...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcdeafdgehddfibjXXjXgbkdXdiejjbdXXacgdkdlmdkgifhedndfnXdbamljjXgedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 69,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111001010 111100101 111001011 101110101 101010101 100111010 110010101 101010110010 001001001101 100010111 1010101 0010111110 100101101 1001011001 1101111010 0111101110 11001010110 1001001101 101111001 1111101101 110010011101 1110100111 110101101 11001001011 1010010101 1001001001 011101101 11100101 1001101010 11101001010 1111010101 1001001111 01001111011 1101001011 01111101010 1001101001 1110010111 11110101 10101010001 1010101101 110111011 111111101 10011100111 00100100111 111010101 10111111011 1100101101 11101110010 010111111 001011110110 0101101011 111011101001 010101001 110101100 110100111 10101101 111110010100 001110001001 1001001010 011101111 00101111001 10111100111 0100111110 11100101 10110110010 0110110111 10011111 01001100101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2881
- Average number of words per stanza: 542
- Amount of lines: 69
- 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, for, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
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