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Basking Shark, 'emerging from the slime of everything', 'So…
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'slounge out of the sea'
Slounge - onomatopoeia - noise of the waves, clumsy movement - again connecting the shark to unappealing qualities.
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'roomsized monster'
Metaphor - roomsized - extreme image; frighting, overwhelming monster - low down on the evolutionary scale. Emotionless.
'once (too often)'
Parenthesis - although the poet is frightened he tries to inject humour to make light of the situation. But he'd rather it didn't happen again.
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'met'
Past tense - this is a reflection, the shock has passed.
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'matchbox brain'
Metaphor - basic animal - no intelligence, opposite of a human.
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'grow pale'
Connotations of ill/shock - thoughts of how the human race are more dangerous and monstrous than the shark.
'Swish up'
The onomatopoeia 'swish' of the water also alludes to the idea of displacement in the previous stanza.
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