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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