Analysis Of Where The Sidewalk Ends By Shel Silverstein

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Where the Sidewalk Ends is written by Shel Silverstein. Where the Sidewalk Ends is written on 1974. Shel wrote this poem in the literature fiction. I thought that the poem “Where the Sidewalk Ends” was a great poem because it talked about a sidewalk that ends at some place. Some of the literary devices that were in the poem was and, the, and walk. Some of the rhyme devices that were in the poem as well was walk, chalk, his, and is. My opinion of the poem was that I thought it was very weird to see a very long sidewalk (Shel Silverstein Poems). I was very surprised to see that the sidewalk was long. One thing I did not understand was how there was a very long sidewalk. One other poem that Shel Silverstein wrote was “Messy Room” and it was very

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