This is an analysis of the poem Can You Cut Me Some Slack? that begins with:
Is it a duty,
For those wise......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBB CDEFD CecGHX cgXcX IDdJDX ABBB CDEFD CGHX IDdJDX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,6,5,6,4,5,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00010 111 0100101 01101 00010 1011 010100 010 0101101 11100010111 11110011110 01001000010011 1101010101000101 0100100101001 1010110110001 111011010 11111101 01101 1011010 011010110110 110 1110111 1 111111 1110101011 11 00010 111 0100101 01101 00010 1011 010100 010 0101101 11100010111 1101010101000101 0100100101001 1010110110001 110 1110111 1 111111 1110101011 11
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, do, and are repeated.
The author used the same word is at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Can You Cut Me Some Slack?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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