Analysis of Soft Caramel

Jean Cocteau 1889 (Maisons-Laffitte) – 1963 (Milly-la-Forêt)



Take a young girl.
Fill her with ice and gin
shake it all up to make it androgynous
And return her to her family
Hello, hello, operator don't cut me off
Ah! how sad it is to be the king of animals,
Nobody says a word
Oh! Love is the worst of evils
Take a young girl,
Fill her with ice and gin
Put a slight drop of angostura on her mouth
I knew a man very unhappy in love
Who played Chopin's nocturnes on the drum
Hello, hello, operator don't cut me off
I was talking to....I was talking to the....hello, hello?
Nobody says a word.
—don't you find that art is a bit.....
We tell children wash your hands
We don't tell 'em wash your teeth.....
Soft caramel--


Scheme ABcdEfGfABhijEkGlmno
Poetic Form
Metre 1011 101101 11111110100 001010100 01011001111 1111111011100 1101 11101110 1011 101101 101111101 11011001001 1111101 01011001111 111011101101 1101 11111101 1110111 1111111 1100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 647
Words 134
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 488
Words per stanza (avg) 130
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 15, 2023

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Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. more…

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