This is an analysis of The Land Of Happy by Shel Silverstein.

Have you been to the land of happy,
Where everyone's happy all day,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXXbacac
  • Stanza lengths: 9,
  • Metre: 110001010 11011011 111111 001001 11011011 111010010 1101101 110001010 101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

where, there's