This is an analysis of the poem To Be Or 'Not' To Be Crazed? that begins with:
To Be or 'not' to Be crazed?
Is that the question to be raise today? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcd cdXe Xdce efefXAbca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0011001 0101000101 10100110100 0001011101 01101010100 11010100 0110010110100 1101000101100 11110101010 111010 0010100 10100100101010 0101001 101101 10011 1100001 0011001 0101000101 001010010 01010011010101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of To Be Or 'Not' To Be Crazed?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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