Strayed Crab by Elizabeth Bishop: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Strayed Crab that begins with:

This is not my home. How did I get so far from water? It must
be over that way somewhere. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcXcXXcaadaXdeXXbfXafXaedcdXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0011110111101001 0101111 110100101000101100 11010101110111010 1111011001101010 100100111010110100 01000101111110011 1101110111011 11101100101001110 111111110111111 11100010110111 1001111101011 111011110111 01111101111111 01011110111111 110111110100111 101 101111010101100 11100100111111 1110001010101010 1011001010101110 111101101101011100 1101001001111010 111101111110000 1110101010 11110010110101 01011111111110001 11011001111110 11111110111011 11111010010101010 10100110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1842
  • Average number of words per stanza: 353
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, it, of, my, and, you are repeated.

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