Chocolate Cake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFG GHIJKLMKNOMPQDR EDSSTQUF UV KWXR YSZSC A2 IB2C2C2D2 RE2 XF2G2H2U G2OI2ZJ2TK2 I L2M2M2N2O O2KP2TK2 IL2 M2 Q2FR2 O2L2B2L I K2 LOI Q2S2O2KT2NU2L2 FQKV2C2W2W2 ZX2 C2EY2K M TO2 F2R2 I2Z2SSA3QOI TXB3U E U C3 UQ2 K2C3E NEC3 F G2IIX2X2 OW2 F SEAOD3Z XFE3K2F3EG3I love chocolate cake | A |
And when I was a boy | B |
I loved it even more | C |
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Sometimes we used to have it for tea | D |
and Mum used to say | E |
'If there's any left over | F |
you can have it to take to school | G |
tomorrow to have at playtime ' | - |
And the next day I would take it to school | G |
wrapped up in tin foil | H |
open it up at playtime | I |
and sit in the corner of the playground | J |
eating it | K |
you know how the icing on top | L |
is all shiny and it cracks as you | M |
bite into it | K |
and there's that other kind of icing in | N |
the middle | O |
and it sticks to your hands and you | M |
can lick your fingers | P |
and lick your lips | Q |
oh it's lovely | D |
yeah | R |
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Anyway | E |
once we had this chocolate cake for tea | D |
and later I went to bed | S |
but while I was in bed | S |
I found myself waking up | T |
licking my lips | Q |
and smiling | U |
I woke up proper | F |
'The chocolate cake ' | - |
It was the first thing | U |
thought of | V |
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I could almost see it | K |
so I thought | W |
what if I go downstairs | X |
and have a little nibble yeah | R |
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It was all dark | Y |
everyone was in bed | S |
so it must have been really late | Z |
but I got out of bed | S |
crept out of the door | C |
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there's always a creaky floorboard isn't there | A2 |
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Past Mum and Dad's room | I |
careful not to tread on bits of broken toys | B2 |
or bits of Lego | C2 |
you know what it's like treading on Lego | C2 |
with your bare feet | D2 |
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yowwww | R |
shhhhhhh | E2 |
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downstairs | X |
into the kitchen | F2 |
open the cupboard | G2 |
and there it is | H2 |
all shining | U |
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So I take it out of the cupboard | G2 |
put it on the table | O |
and I see that | I2 |
there's a few crumbs lying about on the plate | Z |
so I lick my finger and run my finger all over the crumbs | J2 |
scooping them up | T |
and put them into my mouth | K2 |
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oooooooommmmmmmmm | I |
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nice | L2 |
br Then | M2 |
I look again | M2 |
and on one side where it's been cut | N2 |
it's all crumbly | O |
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So I take a knife | O2 |
I think I'll just tidy that up a bit | K |
cut off the crumbly bits | P2 |
scoop them all up | T |
and into the mouth | K2 |
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oooooommm mmmm | I |
nice | L2 |
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Look at the cake again | M2 |
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That looks a bit funny now | Q2 |
one side doesn't match the other | F |
I'll just even it up a bit eh | R2 |
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Take the knife | O2 |
and slice | L2 |
This time the knife makes a little cracky noise | B2 |
as it goes through that hard icing on top | L |
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A whole slice this time | I |
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into the mouth | K2 |
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Oh the icing on top | L |
and the icing in the middle | O |
ohhhhhh oooo mmmmmm | I |
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But now | Q2 |
I can't stop myself | S2 |
Knife | O2 |
just take any old slice at it | K |
and I've got this great big chunk | T2 |
and I'm cramming it in | N |
what a greedy pig | U2 |
but it's so nice | L2 |
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and there's another | F |
and another and I'm squealing and I'm smacking my lips | Q |
and I'm stuffing myself with it | K |
and | V2 |
before I know | C2 |
I've eaten the lot | W2 |
The whole lot | W2 |
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I look at the plate | Z |
It's all gone | X2 |
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Oh no | C2 |
they're bound to notice aren't they | E |
a whole chocolate cake doesn't just disappear | Y2 |
does it | K |
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What shall do | M |
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I know I'll wash the plate up | T |
and the knife | O2 |
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and put them away and maybe no one | F2 |
will notice eh | R2 |
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So I do that | I2 |
and creep creep creep | Z2 |
back to bed | S |
into bed | S |
doze off | A3 |
licking my lips | Q |
with a lovely feeling in my belly | O |
Mmmmrnmmmmm | I |
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In the morning I get up | T |
downstairs | X |
have breakfast | B3 |
Mum's saying | U |
'Have you got your dinner money ' | - |
and I say | E |
'Yes ' | - |
'And don't forget to take some chocolate cake with you ' | - |
I stopped breathing | U |
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'What's the matter ' she says | C3 |
'you normally jump at chocolate cake ' | - |
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I'm still not breathing | U |
and she's looking at me very closely now | Q2 |
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She's looking at me just below my mouth | K2 |
'What's that ' she says | C3 |
'What's what ' I say | E |
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'What's that there ' | - |
'Where ' | - |
'There ' she says pointing at my chin | N |
'I don't know ' I say | E |
'It looks like chocolate ' she says | C3 |
'It's not chocolate is it ' | - |
No answer | F |
'Is it ' | - |
'I don't know ' | - |
She goes to the cupboard | G2 |
looks in up top middle bottom | I |
turns back to me | I |
'It's gone | X2 |
It's gone | X2 |
You haven't eaten it have you ' | - |
'I don't know ' | - |
'You don't know You don't know if you've eaten a whole | O |
chocolate cake or not | W2 |
When When did you eat it ' | - |
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So I told her | F |
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and she said | S |
well what could she say | E |
'That's the last time I give you any cake to take | A |
to school | O |
Now go Get out | D3 |
no wait | Z |
not before you've washed your dirty sticky face ' | - |
I went upstairs | X |
looked in the mirror | F |
and there it was | E3 |
just below my mouth | K2 |
a chocolate smudge | F3 |
The give away | E |
Maybe she'll forget about it by next week | G3 |
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