Break down the structure of the poem by completing
each sentence.
The first stanza is mainly about
The second stanza is mainly about
breaks from the blue-black
skin of the water, dragging her shell
with its mossy scutes
across the shallows and through the rushes
and over the mudflats, to the uprise,
to the yellow sand,
to dig with her ungainly feet
a nest, and hunker there spewing
her white eggs down
into the darkness, and you think
The third stanza is mainly about
of her patience, her fortitude,
her determination to complete
what she was born to do---
and then von realize a greater thi
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