This is an analysis of the poem Episode 43 that begins with:
THEN fashioned for him the folk of Geats
firm on the earth a funeral-pile,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcdbXebaefgfgcXafbhXciidXXjeeefjXiXefeh Xegfe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110110101 110101001 11001011001 1100110111 11101001010 10101101 110111001000 0100100111 110111101 010100111 10101100101 11010101 1100111101 10010101 01101101 100101111 110010101 11011010 11011011010 010010101 1010010111 11010110 011111110 0101010110010 0111010010 111101101 11001011010 01101111100 10100101 100101001 100111001 100110101 10111001011 10010101 01010111 111111010 1101001010 100101100 1111011001 10011111 0100100101 1111001010 11101001010 11010101 01111011010 0010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 935
- Average number of words per stanza: 170
- Amount of lines: 46
- 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; and, her, they, their, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Episode 43;
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