This is an analysis of the poem Monody To The Memory Of Chatterton that begins with:

Chill penury repress'd his noble rage,
And froze the genial current of his soul.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xab ccbbddeeff eeXaggff cccchhaaffbbdX iiddiihhjjiikkjj eelliiXikk iicceeeXff llmmcceeii cckkffjj ffmdddccffXjjeeeeff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,10,8,14,16,10,10,10,8,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1100010101 1101010001 1 01110101010 11010100010 1111010101 0011000101 1111010101 1101000101 1101010101 0101000101 11010101001 0111111101 1111011111 1101011101 111100010010 0101010101 1101010101 1101000101 1111011101 1111010001 11110100101 0100110101 01110110101 11010010001 0101010101 1101111101 1011001101 0101000101 1101000101 1011001101 1011110101 1101010101 11011101101 10111101001 10001010101 11010000111 1101010101 1101010101 10001010111 010100110101 1101010101 1101010101 11010101011 1101010101 1101010111 0101000101 01011010101 0101010101 1101111101 1101010101 1101100101 1101010101 1011010101 1111011101 1001010101 1101010011 11010101010 1101010101 0101010111 1111011101 0101110101 0101010101 11010100101 0101110101 1100110101 0101010101 01010101110 1101010101 11001011101 1011010101 10010100101 10011101001 01011101010 01010111010 1011010101 1101010101 10110010101 0101010101 1101100100111 11011001001 11010100101 0101110101 1101000101 10010010101 1111010101 1100001011 1011110101 0111011101 1010010111 1101010101 001100001010 01010101001 0101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1001010101 1101010111 010101011001 1111011101 11001111101 1111010001 0101001101 11011010101 1001011001 11110100101 1101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 435
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 108
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to, from, no, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, no, the are repeated.

    The author used the same words yet, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Monody To The Memory Of Chatterton;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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