This is an analysis of Recipe For A Hippopotamus Sandwich by Shel Silverstein.
A hippo sandwich is easy to make.
All you do is simply take…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXaXbXbXcXc
- Stanza lengths: 12,
- Metre: 0101001001 1110101 1101 1101 1101 1101 110100 1101 01010 11010 111010 10000
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
one
Anaphora
one
