This is an analysis of Who Does She Think She Is.... by Shel Silverstein.

I asked the Zebra:
Are you black with white stripes?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bb X bbcccccc dX a bXd
  • Stanza lengths: 1,2,1,8,2,1,3,
  • Metre: 11010 111011 11011 101011 1100110 11110010 11100101 111100101 11100111 111101101 11101101 111100111 11111111 111111 1101010 011 01
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

you, with, some, and, on

Anaphora

and

Epiphora

stripes, habits, times, days, ways