Breaking Down the Structure of "The Turtle" 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 thing.---

Done