what type of poem is this?
Smart
Be Shel Silverstein
My dad gave me one dollar bill
‘cause I’m his smartest son
And I swapped it for two shinny quarters
‘Cause 2 is more than one
And I took the quarters
And traded them to Lou
For three dimes- I guesse he didn’t know
That three is more than two!
Just Then, along came old blind Bates
And just ‘cause he can’t see
He gave me four nickels for my three dimes
And four is more than three!
An I too the nickels to Hiram Coombs
Down at the seed-feed store,
And the fool five me five pennies for them,
And five is more than four!
And then I went and showed my dad,
And he got all red in the cheeks
And closed his eyes and shook his head-
Too proud of me to speak!
one of these?
iambic pentameter
anapest
trochee
dactyl
rhyming couplet
assonance
consonance
alliteration
internal rhyme
slant rhyme
onomatopoeia
imagery
simile
metaphor
personification
symbolism
allusion
Aside from rhyme, a children’s poem is not the place to look for intensive poetic devices.
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