This is an analysis of Show It At The Beach by Shel Silverstein.
Oh they won't let us show it at the beach no they won't let us show it at the beach
They think we're gonna grab it if it gets within our reach…
Browse poems by Shel Silverstein
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaA bbbAbaaa cccA XddA
- Stanza lengths: 3,8,4,4,
- Metre: 11111101011111110101 11110100010111 1111110101 1111001100110011 111010100110101 111010101010111 1111110101 11111101011 111110101 111110100010111 1111110101 1111000101010001 111000101010101 111011101011101 1111110101 1011010100010111 111110101010001 10011101110101 1111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 19
Repeated words/phrases
it, they, show, beach, let, us, at
Anaphora
you, but