The Blazing Hat, Part Two by Adrian Henri: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Blazing Hat, Part Two that begins with:

This is the morning that we burnt a cardboard hat
flames licking the inside of the brim...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabcXdXXdcbebfXgXdfAXAdebgcXdfeg eXXXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 000101110111 110001001 000101010111 1110010 11101 00010111001100 1001101 00010110101101001 10 111010010110 000101110101 10010 00010101001011 001010 0010 00010111 110110 00010110010101 10110001 11 000101001 01 000101001 11101010101 000101110101 10101010110 00010111010 111010 0001010101110 1000101 101010010 00010111111001 10111010 110101 00010111110010 1010100000 1001001 0001011111 101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 695
  • Average number of words per stanza: 132
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • 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; that, of are repeated.

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  • summary of The Blazing Hat, Part Two;
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