This is an analysis of Masochistic Baby by Shel Silverstein.
Oh, ever since my Masochistic Baby went and left me
I got nothin’ to hit but the wall.…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abccbddaXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 110111000101111 111001101 1111110 11101010 1111101011 1100111100 111110111 110111000101111 11100110111 1001101 1001111 1001101 1001101 1001101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, nothin, to, but
Anaphora
and, nothin
