This is an analysis of Bear In There by Shel Silverstein.

There's a polar bear
In our Frigidaire-…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcbcdXdaaaaaX
  • Stanza lengths: 17,
  • Metre: 10101 01100 11000101 001001 101001 101101 001001 1100010 11001 110010 11001 111101 011001 101101 01101 11001 011000
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

in, he's

Anaphora

and, he's