Beowulf (episode 11) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEAFGHAHHHIJKAG HLHMNHOPHQRASSAAHHHT GUAHHHHVCHWHHHXYSZHH XA2HB2PAAC2GHAD2SSAE 2F2HG2WOHH2| THEN from the moorland by misty crags | A |
| with God's wrath laden Grendel came | B |
| The monster was minded of mankind now | C |
| sundry to seize in the stately house | A |
| Under welkin he walked till the wine palace there | D |
| gold hall of men he gladly discerned | E |
| flashing with fretwork Not first time this | A |
| that he the home of Hrothgar sought | F |
| yet ne'er in his life day late or early | G |
| such hardy heroes such hall thanes found | H |
| To the house the warrior walked apace | A |
| parted from peace the portal opended | H |
| though with forged bolts fast when his fists had | H |
| struck it | H |
| and baleful he burst in his blatant rage | I |
| the house's mouth All hastily then | J |
| o'er fair paved floor the fiend trod on | K |
| ireful he strode there streamed from his eyes | A |
| fearful flashes like flame to see | G |
| - | |
| He spied in hall the hero band | H |
| kin and clansmen clustered asleep | L |
| hardy liegemen Then laughed his heart | H |
| for the monster was minded ere morn should dawn | M |
| savage to sever the soul of each | N |
| life from body since lusty banquet | H |
| waited his will But Wyrd forbade him | O |
| to seize any more of men on earth | P |
| after that evening Eagerly watched | H |
| Hygelac's kinsman his cursed foe | Q |
| how he would fare in fell attack | R |
| Not that the monster was minded to pause | A |
| Straightway he seized a sleeping warrior | S |
| for the first and tore him fiercely asunder | S |
| the bone frame bit drank blood in streams | A |
| swallowed him piecemeal swiftly thus | A |
| the lifeless corse was clear devoured | H |
| e'en feet and hands Then farther he hied | H |
| for the hardy hero with hand he grasped | H |
| felt for the foe with fiendish claw | T |
| for the hero reclining who clutched it boldly | G |
| prompt to answer propped on his arm | U |
| Soon then saw that shepherd of evils | A |
| that never he met in this middle world | H |
| in the ways of earth another wight | H |
| with heavier hand gripe at heart he feared | H |
| sorrowed in soul none the sooner escaped | H |
| Fain would he flee his fastness seek | V |
| the den of devils no doings now | C |
| such as oft he had done in days of old | H |
| Then bethought him the hardy Hygelac thane | W |
| of his boast at evening up he bounded | H |
| grasped firm his foe whose fingers cracked | H |
| The fiend made off but the earl close followed | H |
| The monster meant if he might at all | X |
| to fling himself free and far away | Y |
| fly to the fens knew his fingers' power | S |
| in the gripe of the grim one Gruesome march | Z |
| to Heorot this monster of harm had made | H |
| Din filled the room the Danes were bereft | H |
| castle dwellers and clansmen all | X |
| earls of their ale Angry were both | A2 |
| those savage hall guards the house resounded | H |
| Wonder it was the wine hall firm | B2 |
| in the strain of their struggle stood to earth | P |
| the fair house fell not too fast it was | A |
| within and without by its iron bands | A |
| craftily clamped though there crashed from sill | C2 |
| many a mead bench men have told me | G |
| gay with gold where the grim foes wrestled | H |
| So well had weened the wisest Scyldings | A |
| that not ever at all might any man | D2 |
| that bone decked brave house break asunder | S |
| crush by craft unless clasp of fire | S |
| in smoke engulfed it Again uprose | A |
| din redoubled Danes of the North | E2 |
| with fear and frenzy were filled each one | F2 |
| who from the wall that wailing heard | H |
| God's foe sounding his grisly song | G2 |
| cry of the conquered clamorous pain | W |
| from captive of hell Too closely held him | O |
| he who of men in might was strongest | H |
| in that same day of this our life | H2 |
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