This is an analysis of the poem The Crab That Played With The Sea that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXXcaXddXXcceeabddXXXXff Xaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011 1110111 1010101 101011 111 1110111 10100011 100111000 1100101 11111 11111 1110101 10110101 1011111 11101 0010110 1010001111 01001010 1011011 1000101 10110010 10101000 10111 1010100 00110111 10101101 10111101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; and, o, to are repeated.
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