This is an analysis of the poem Chatterton's Will that begins with:
Burgum, I thank thee, thou hast let me see
That Bristol has impress'd her stamp on thee, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffaagghhgXeXhheeddiiiieeddhhiiggggaa j g bd XXiX hdji bd b Xd X X i i i g d X c g j XXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,1,1,2,4,4,2,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011111111 1101010111 110010101010 11001001101 1111010101 11010010101 11110101001 0101010001 1011111100 1111010101 1100010111 0101011101 11010101101 1111010001 0101010011 1001011111 1111010011 1111001101 0001010011 01010101010 1100110111 01010101000 0101111101 1101010111 1111010101 1101000111 11010100001 0101000101 010010101 0111010111 1101010111 1111010111 1101110101 0101000101 1110010001 0110010011 1101011101 1111010101 1111010111 1101111111 1001000101 1111110101 1011110001 1101010101 0101011101 1111000101 000101100011010000100101010101000101110010011010011010001000100001101010110010100100101101001101101101100010001001001110110000100 100101110100111011011001001010010011010010010101111111011011101111000110010110110100101100010111101000111101110110 10100010110100 111000111101010101100100011111101010000100100101101010001101101111001010101010010011 1111010 111001001 0111101 110111 11111 11010100 11010 01001 1010100110100 101100010010010101001110100101101011010001000101 10110010100 10001000 10100 10110110100111101100100100110010111000 1011110111110 100011011011101000110010101101011010101110101101101011001001110010011 011001101000101001111110111100100101011001010010000100101001011101010010110001000011010101011111101101100101011010010011101010000000100101001111101010110100010101 101111101100101011010100101100 1000110001011101100100101010110100010101110011011110011000101001011011101101111100010001011101100000100101101110110101010100010011010100010001000010101111010010001000100100001010010010110110100101101010010100011001110111101011100100110010010101010010001010110101010100001110100101011001110111111000101111001010010010100011110101111111111001111010101001101101100011111011100101111110011111010010011101111101011110101011010010111101000111001001100101010101101110100001 1111010001010111001011110100010111001010101111100001001010100101001110000100 10111010101010101001010011000010111001 10110110101011101010011101011010000100111111100 10111011011110010001000110010010110000101010010000101010001001000010001001011000001001000111111100010001000101 101111011100001001101110 101000100100010101 1100
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 101 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 18
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, to, of, i, and, my, on, that, in, said, if, paul, or, by, be, monument, flower, john, farr, he, mr, give, it, leave, all, him, item, this, they, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thy, item are repeated.
The author used the same words on, item at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Chatterton's Will;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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