This is an analysis of Pathetic Way Of Getting Over Me by Shel Silverstein.

Oh if you read in the papers that she's been seen
A gettin' in an out of some millionare's long custom made limousine…

Browse poems by Shel Silverstein

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabBccbBXdbdeebBXXXddXa
  • Stanza lengths: 23,
  • Metre: 101100101101 0100110110001101101 11110011111 11011010100101010101 11011110111010 111110110010 111100101110101 11011010100101010101 11110111101110 01100101010100 11101111101011111 110101010101 11111110101101 0110101001010101 11100111011111 11011010100101010101 01010100110111110101010 11111111001 11010010101000 111101011101100101 11111110101 1111111001 10111111010111010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 23

Repeated words/phrases

her, and, she, of, just, me, i

Anaphora

and