This is an analysis of the poem The Frosting Dish that begins with:
When I was just a little lad
Not more than eight or nine,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcbcdadaeeeefbfbgbgbhahXecec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 111111 11010111 1101110 11011101 011101 11011101 110101 11010101 110111 11000111 0100101 11111100 110101 01011101 010101 10110101 110111 10110101 111101 11011101 100111 11010111 110101 11010011 111111 110011001 1111001 11111111 110111 11100101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 957
- Average number of words per stanza: 191
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i've, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i've, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Frosting Dish;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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