This is an analysis of the poem Just To Keep The Critics Cranky that begins with:
Why wont you let us see,
What is going on backstage? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bcXa aXbcdXc XadeXXecf aafX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,7,9,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 1010111 11110101 0101001 1110 11 10111 0111111 1101101 11110110101 1011101010 1011 0101010101101 11110010111 11111011 01101001000 1010010100 101010010 11011000 10101010 1 11010 1 0 11 101000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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.
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- summary of Just To Keep The Critics Cranky;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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