This is an analysis of the poem Who Licked The Frosting Off The Cake that begins with:
They would love to place all of their fading decorations,
With undenied insecurities on his shoulders....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbc defeegcaa bXXabdXf Xfbdcf XX h XX ea hX idXXg dafXcXii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,9,8,6,2,1,2,2,2,5,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101101010 0100101001010 111 1100111111010 101001011 111010 1001011001 111001 110111101 11010110001 111101 111101001 01 0110100010 01000 010101 011010 1010110100 101000 0101010001 1010001110 11110111 111100100001010100 1101001001001 11110 110010100101100 110101 001010110101 101010 111111 1 1 10111 1 111111 101 110101010011 1 11010 01101 11011 111101 11101 101101001010 1111101 11001111 1101001011 110011010001 101011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, those, screwers, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, and are repeated.
The author used the same word they 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 'bree' is repeated).
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