This is an analysis of Father Of A Boy Named Sue by Shel Silverstein.
(Okay now years ago I wrote a song called A Boy Named Sue and that was okay
And everything except then I started to think about it and I thought…
Browse poems by Shel Silverstein
Structure
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- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
and, i, to, gettin', he, with, my, his, in, him
Anaphora
and

