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 XFE3K2F3EG3| I 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| I could almost see it | K |
| so I thought | W |
| what if I go downstairs | X |
| and have a little nibble yeah | R |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| there's always a creaky floorboard isn't there | A2 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| yowwww | R |
| shhhhhhh | E2 |
| - | |
| downstairs | X |
| into the kitchen | F2 |
| open the cupboard | G2 |
| and there it is | H2 |
| all shining | U |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| oooooooommmmmmmmm | I |
| - | |
| nice | L2 |
| br Then | M2 |
| I look again | M2 |
| and on one side where it's been cut | N2 |
| it's all crumbly | O |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| oooooommm mmmm | I |
| nice | L2 |
| - | |
| Look at the cake again | M2 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| A whole slice this time | I |
| - | |
| into the mouth | K2 |
| - | |
| Oh the icing on top | L |
| and the icing in the middle | O |
| ohhhhhh oooo mmmmmm | I |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| I look at the plate | Z |
| It's all gone | X2 |
| - | |
| Oh no | C2 |
| they're bound to notice aren't they | E |
| a whole chocolate cake doesn't just disappear | Y2 |
| does it | K |
| - | |
| What shall do | M |
| - | |
| I know I'll wash the plate up | T |
| and the knife | O2 |
| - | |
| and put them away and maybe no one | F2 |
| will notice eh | R2 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 'What's the matter ' she says | C3 |
| 'you normally jump at chocolate cake ' | - |
| - | |
| I'm still not breathing | U |
| and she's looking at me very closely now | Q2 |
| - | |
| She's looking at me just below my mouth | K2 |
| 'What's that ' she says | C3 |
| 'What's what ' I say | E |
| - | |
| '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 ' | - |
| - | |
| So I told her | F |
| - | |
| 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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