This is an analysis of the poem The Great Escape that begins with:

listen, he said, you ever seen a bunch of crabs in a
bucket? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcdbXXebeXdfggXfcXdahbXXXdffdh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111101010100 10 1111 11100111111 011110010 1010101010010 111101001 0101111111 1 1011 101110101111 0010110000110 1110100 001010 101111 11010101111 110010 101100110 1 11011010111 0 11111111110 1010 1111111111 101 011100110100 110010101 11010101111 110111 11110111 101111 0111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 992
  • Average number of words per stanza: 198
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; up, and, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words really, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines said, place are repeated).

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  • summary of The Great Escape;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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