This is an analysis of the poem Ten Fingered Mice that begins with:
When a cake is nicely frosted and it's put away for tea,
And it looks as trim and proper as a chocolate cake should be,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaXccddcceedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101010111 101111101010110 101011101110001 01010100011101 111010101110111 1010000101111011 1010111011100101 111110101011001 101010111110101 110110111010011 101010100010001 101010101011101 111011101011111 101010100001101 111010101010101 101010101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 997
- Average number of words per stanza: 191
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it, as, you, been, for, i are repeated.
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