Tout Homme A Ses Douleurs by Andre Marie de Chenier: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Tout Homme A Ses Douleurs that begins with:

Tout homme a ses douleurs. Mais aux yeux de ses frères
Chacun d'un front serein déguise ses misères....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110111011 1011101110 10111111011010 111101111110 1110101110110 10101101101110 110111111100 1111011010110 11110011100 111011010110 11011100101 1101011110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 606
  • Average number of words per stanza: 110
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ses, chacun, ils, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words chacun, ils are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines res is repeated).

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  • summary of Tout Homme A Ses Douleurs;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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