This is an analysis of The Dragon Of Grindly Grun by Shel Silverstein.

I'm the Dragon of Grindly Grun,
I breathe fire as hot as the sun.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Aabba ccXXc AaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,4,
  • Metre: 00100101 111011101 101101 111111 101101001 111011011 11101001 1111010 110010 000101011 00100101 1110101011 1111101001 11111111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 14