This is an analysis of The Unicorn by Shel Silverstein.
A long time ago, when the earth was green
and there was more kinds of animals than you've ever seen,…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcaa aXdd bcaX XXdd bcaX acaa XXXa bcXX eeffXbcaa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 0110110111 11111010011101 1110111011101 10100110101 11110101111 111010101010 11100000011111 0100110101 101111010111 1111010101 1111010111101 11110101 11111010101001 110101011010 11100000011111 1011011100 11011110010 11101011101110 1100100111 11111111 1111111010111001 110101011010 111000000110101 011111100 1101110101 1010001010101 101011000101 1010101 00110101011010 01001010001011010 01101010101010 11011010101 1101101010111 010101010010 101101001010 1111110100 10110101010001 101001100111 10101111010001 1111010101001 110101010101101 11101010110010 11100000011111 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
and, there, two, he, your, started, see, you'll, of
Anaphora
and, there, he, the, you'll