This is an analysis of For Sale by Shel Silverstein.
One sister for sale!
One sister for sale!…
Browse poems by Shel Silverstein
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AAabbXaccaa
- Stanza lengths: 11,
- Metre: 11011 11011 11011011011 110110 111010 111010 010 010 111111110 11101011011 01011011011
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 11
Repeated words/phrases
one, sister, for, sale
Anaphora
one, a
Epiphora
sale
