This is an analysis of Me-Stew by Shel Silverstein.

I have nothing to put in my stew, you see,
Not a bone or a bean or a black-eyed pea,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddeXe
  • Stanza lengths: 13,
  • Metre: 11100101111 10110110111 111100101 011101101 11011011111 001001011101 111110111010 111110011010 11101001101 11111101001 111111 1100110 111111011010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 13

Repeated words/phrases

i'll

Anaphora

i'll