Passage Analysis of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Gawain and the Green Knight A summary of a short passage in the text Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was written by an anonymous author in the 14th century. It was written in a dialect from Northern England. The poem uses alliteration similar to the Anglo-Saxon form of poetry.
Alliteration uses a repetition of consonants.
The poem ends the way it begins. At the end of each scene, the section of the poem concludes with a sharp rhyme. There are many patterns that are developed by the author in the poem. There are three literal hunts with the deer, boar and fox. There are also three symbolic hunts, three attempts to seduce Gawain and the three hits of the Green Knight's ax.