This is an analysis of the poem The Great Fires that begins with:

Love is apart from all things.
Desire and excitement are nothing beside it. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXbbXcXXcbaXaadadaXcbbbXdXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001011 0101010110010 001010111 11110010 1011010 1011100 111010111 0101111 1011010010 111001001 1111101 0100100110 111110110 0100101 101010110 10001010101 1011101010 11110101 1111100010 1111001 110010010100 0101001 1010011101 1111100100 00101111 111110 110111100110 101101101 001100111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1049
  • Average number of words per stanza: 200
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; love is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, love are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases it, love connect the lines.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Great Fires;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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