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Write two to three sentences explaining what you notice about the language of the poem

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Heads up, you didn’t post a image of the poem itself, this isn’t solvable
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I can hear that Beowulf uses alliteration and a pattern of stressed syllables. The language of the poem does not sound much like modern English, likely because Old English is more closely related to Germanic languages.

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