In a narrative poem, just as in a narrative story the sentences do not rhyme. The stories are always told by a narrator, as in a narrative story. The both connect a series of events that are usually developed in a specific plot.
Either desolate (bleak and dismal emptiness) or lonely (sad because one has no friends or company.)
Beowulf takes Grendels Leg
The meaning of the word detract should be distract because the word detract means lessen the worth of something like subtraction, and so insult means to hurt someone with words/speech not lessen so no, not vary because that's like checking and pending so no, and not attract because that means pulling something/someone closer so no. The answer is distract because its taking someone/something away from another.