This is an analysis of the poem Oh Those Cookies Made that begins with:
You hooked me with your looks,
And also cooking, 'bay-bee'....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXbcc DDDBeDBaDDXeDDDBedBaDD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,22,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 1101011 110100010101011 10100110 011001 1101010 01010101 1111001 11101 10111010 11101 00111110 1 1101 110101010 1 1101 1101 1 11101 10111010 11101 00111110 1 11101 110101010 1 1101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, to, made, cookies are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word oh is repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bee', made are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word made at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase oh connects the lines.
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- summary of Oh Those Cookies Made;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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