Analysis of Cake



Cake cake my first cake
Baked taked at the age of nine
Sweet fondly memories of cake
Taught by dad with guideline

Spatula was an unknown word
No mixing bowl in kitchen
Electric mixer was missing in our kitchen cupboard
Kerosene cooker was part of our poor little oven

Mixed the eggs one by one into sugar
Beating them with wooden spoon
Until they got creamy and thicker
Flour, essence and baking soda added in fine

Butter on an old newspaper
Fiils the role of baking paper
The tray is ready for creamy mixer
Plums and cherries sprinkled to make it sweeter

Tenner I received as an allowance
For my labour and motivation
Part of my training to balance
The family run business devotion


Scheme ABAB CDCD EXEB EEEE FDFD
Poetic Form Quatrain  (80%)
Etheree  (30%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11111 1110111 11010011 11111 10011011 1101010 010101100101010 10101111011010 1011110110 1011101 011110010 1010010101001 1011110 10111010 0111011010 10101011110 1010111010 1110010 11110110 0100110010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 687
Words 129
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 112
Words per stanza (avg) 25

About this poem

How I learnt to bake my first cake

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Written on November 08, 2022

Submitted by dstviiiv on November 08, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Dunstan Samantha Thomas

I am an amateurish freelance writer steeping into the world of poetry and prose. I never had the opportunity to publish recently in the main stream media channels. My first sonnets were titled 'Restlessness' and 'Pulchritudinous' and they were published in the Seminary Quarterly Magazine Aloysian Herald in the 90's in Colombo, Sri Lanka. more…

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