This is an analysis of the poem My Fire that begins with:

In the cave under our house
I tended the fire: a furnace...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbcdXb XbbbebXdfgc bbcgbfhbe hXdbXdfXbg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,11,9,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0011011 110010010 111001 1110101 1110110 01101011 101101 101001110 10101010 111101 10101010 1101100 10111 110010110 1011010 110011 0111011 00101101 1011011 111011 1101101 1111010 100111 111101 1101010 111011 00110110 110101 1101010 1101111 011111 1100011 1101111 1101011 00100111 11001001 0101001 111110 11001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.

    The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

  • summary of My Fire;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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