This is an analysis of the poem À L'Auteur De Chatterton that begins with:

Au Théâtre-Français deux beaux noms sur l’affiche
M’attirèrent un soir ; ce soir-là j’étais riche,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX XXabbXX XXXXXXX XXXaaXc dXXXXXX XXXXdcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111110 1001111111 1011001111110 111110011101 11111111111 1111001111100 111010111011 11011110100 01010111 1111111111 1111111101 10111111101 11001110011 110011110110 111111001 011110111 100100111110 110110111010 0110111000 11110011010 01010011110 11110111110 11111101 11111111101 11011101101 11100111001 01110010110 1110111111111 11110001011111 1101011110110 11101011110 1111110010 1100111011111 01010100110 111011101010 111001111 11110111111 1111110110 1111101101110 101110101010 111100111111 1110110111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; au, il, s, qu, l, son are repeated.

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

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  • summary of À L'Auteur De Chatterton;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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