This is an analysis of One Inch Tall by Shel Silverstein.

If you were only one inch tall, you'd ride a worm to school.
The teardrop of a crying ant would be your swimming pool.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbA ccdddA eebbba
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
  • Metre: 01010111110101 01000101101101 01011001 11110111 011001001 010111 01010111110101 10110101011001 01011011 11010101 11010111 010111 11010101010101 11011101110101 11010101 01011111 010111001 001111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

you'd

Anaphora

if