This is an analysis of the poem Fire In The Heavens that begins with:
Fire in the heavens, and fire along the hills,
and fire made solid in the flinty stone,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab ccXc cXcX dd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1000101100101 11011000101 11110101011 010101101001 0101010101 0111010101 01000010110 0101011101 0101010101 11100010100 01011000101 1101010101 11001010101 0010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; fire, in are repeated.
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