This is an analysis of Helping by Shel Silverstein.

Agatha Fry, she made a pie
And Christopher John helped bake it…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXb Xbab CbCb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 10011101 11001110 10011101 11001110 110011101 11001110 110011101 11001110 1110100101 110101 1110100101 111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

kind, of, help

Anaphora

and