Grendel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFGHIJKL MNJOPQGRSTUVWXYZ A2B2C2D2E2IDB| Then a powerful demon a prowler through the dark | A |
| nursed a hard grievance It harrowed him | B |
| to hear the din of the loud banquet | C |
| every day in the hall the harp being struck | D |
| and the clear songs of a skilled poet | C |
| telling the mastery of man's beginnings | E |
| How the Almighty had made the earth | F |
| a gleaming plain girdled with waters | G |
| in his splendour He set the sun and the moon | H |
| to be earth's lamplight lanterns for men | I |
| and filled the broad lap of the world | J |
| with branches and leaves and quickened life | K |
| in every other thing that moved | L |
| - | |
| So times were pleasant for the people there | M |
| until finally one a fiend out of hell | N |
| began to work his evil in the world | J |
| Grendel was the name of the grim demon | O |
| haunting the marches marauding around the heath | P |
| and the desolate fens he had dwelt for a time | Q |
| among the banished monsters | G |
| Cain's clan whom the Creator had outlawed | R |
| and condemned as outcasts For the killing of Abel | S |
| the Eternal Lord had exacted a price | T |
| Cain got no good for committing that murder | U |
| because the Almighty made him anathema | V |
| and out of the curse of his exile there sprang | W |
| ogres and elves and evil phantoms | X |
| and the giants too who strove with God | Y |
| time and again until He gave then their reward | Z |
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| So after nightfall Grendel set out | A2 |
| for the lofty house to see how the Ring Danes | B2 |
| were settling into it after their drink | C2 |
| and there he came upon them a company of the best | D2 |
| asleep from their feasting insensible to pain | E2 |
| and human sorrow Suddenly then | I |
| the God cursed brute was creating havoc | D |
| greedy and grim | B |
Anonymous Olde English
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