This is an analysis of the poem Thank God For The Critics that begins with:
It use to bother me when I heard others say,
Who did or did not have talent....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdd aeXbb X fdff bfeXXXXXfbcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,1,4,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010101111101 10101110 110111111 011 110101101 10111 01111011000 01111101101 1001011 11101 1101010 1110011111 1010010111101 01001010001001 01110011110001 111110 0100100 1001001010101100 00101011001001000 1010101001 11011001 010011010011100 111010 1101011010001 0011011 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, they, and are repeated.
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- summary of Thank God For The Critics;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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