This is an analysis of Wedding Cake by Naomi Shihab Nye.
Once on a plane
a woman asked me to hold her baby…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcXdefghfbcidjXcgigkjkbXjecccXalbhggmjbmekcjjfl
- Stanza lengths: 48,
- Metre: 1101 0101101010 1101 110011 11010111 11111 10111010 10101 1101 1101010 101010 111010 1101 111010 1101010 101 1110 00101 1101011 1010 10101 1011 0101 0101110 0101 010101 11111 110110 1111 01011110 1110 10010100 010101 11010 1111 111 111111 1111 10101 10110 110101 11111 1101 0111001 1110100010 101 010110110 11001011
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
new, she
Anaphora
as