Bird of Evil Flame by Donald Benson Blanding: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Bird of Evil Flame that begins with:

I am the ageless Bird of Evil Flame.
Eve knew my name....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AabbcXddee ffddghhiijjeeggccXXkkgXAa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,25,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010101 1111 0101110101 010001010101 11111101 1001010100 010101 0101 1001001 0101 110101000 11110 010001010101 0101001010101 1110010011010 01010101001 1101 01010100010 10001110010 01010101 0101110101 01110011110 110101010 1101010 0010010 111101111 1001101100 11110101010 01111111011 1101111011 0111110101 1101000010010 110100100 1101010101 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 636
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • 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; to, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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

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