This is an analysis of the poem Crab that begins with:
When I eat crab, slide the rosy
rubbery claw across my tongue...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcbdbeXbbfXbegfbgabaafccfXdhfdhbgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 10010111 110110111 001001101000 11110110 1010111110 10111011 1110110010 1101001 1111101010 1010001100 111110 1101010111 10111011 1111101010110 101111101 101010001 101011 110100010010 11101110 1110011010 10100100110 101001110 101001101 101111011 111111111100 1111101 10111011 01111111001 01111111 11101010100 10110010010 11111101 1000101010 1111010 1111001 1010101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1429
- Average number of words per stanza: 281
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, she, us, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines the is repeated).
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- summary of Crab;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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