This is an analysis of The Crab That Played With The Sea by Rudyard Kipling.

China-going P. & O.'s
Pass Pau Amma's playground close,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaXXcaXddXXcceeabddXXXXff Xaa
  • Stanza lengths: 26,3,
  • 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
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 29

Repeated words/phrases

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