This is an analysis of the poem Chocolate Cake that begins with:
I love chocolate cake.
And when I was a boy...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc bbdeXeeXfghigjeiklmn XbffhLodXoX ggkn afgfc c pkqqg XX kjfko feggkhr X lXjgX sglhr pl j idt slkh p r heX issgajXl dlgfigg gj ibcg i hs jt ghffsLmX hkgoXbXXo kX oi rkb XXjbkXdXXfpbjjXXegX d fbaeggXkdkrXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,20,11,4,5,1,5,2,5,7,1,5,5,2,1,3,4,1,1,3,8,7,2,4,1,2,2,8,9,2,2,3,19,1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 111101 110101 011101011 11101 1110110 11100101 011011100 1011111001 11011 1001110 1100100011 100 11101011 011010111 1000 1111010100 010 10101111 11110 1111 1010 1 101 111010111 1101101 111101 1111101 1011 110 11110 11010 01011 110 111110 111 101111 11010101 0111 101101 10110101 111101 11001 11101011001 11111 10101110101 11010 1110110110 0111 1 1 11 00010 10010 1100 110 111010010 101010 1111 10111001101 1111101111011001 1001 1100011 1 1 1 1101 11111001 0110 11101 1111101101 110101 1011 10001 1 1 110101 1101101 11101010 111001011 101 11 01011010101 1011111011 01101 0001 101011 10100010 111 11 11111 1 111101110 1110111 101000 10101 1011 11010 10101010101011 10101100 1 0111 11001 011 11101 011 11 11010101 01101101101 10 1111 1111011 101 1100111011 100101 1111 1111 101 001 11 1011 0010100110 1 0010111 11 110 110 11111010 111 1 110101110101 1110 101011 1100111010 01110 11101110101 1101110111 1111 1111 1110 10 101110111 11111 111100011 111001 110 11 111 110010 10111010 1101 11 01 11010011 111 111111011001 10111 110111 1110 111 11111 101111110101 01 1111 11 101111101010 1101 10010 1101 10111 0101 0101 10101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 35
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 173
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, it, and, my, i'm, creep, 'what's, ', you, know are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, 'what's are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bed, lego, lot, ', gone are repeated).
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- summary of Chocolate Cake;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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