This is an analysis of A Light In The Attic by Shel Silverstein.

There's a light on in the attic.
Thought the house is dark and shuttered,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AbXcAbc
  • Stanza lengths: 7,
  • Metre: 10110010 10101110 111010010 1111001 10110010 11100011 11111001101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 7