He has gotten wiser. He's also not as good as he was. He used a weapon with the dragon, but he didn't with Grendel. He knew he was older and slower.
Her footprints look strangely uneven, with long deep marks. Anna must have been dragging her injured leg.
You should add -es
ex. catches, sixes
Walt Whitman preferred the poetic form of free verse. Free Verse is "a poem of no regular form or meter"