This is an analysis of the poem Forest Fire that begins with:
Of late I have begun to feel a hunger
To take in with greed, like a forest fire that...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacXdcXebXcXfdbfedcXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111001010 010011010101 01101101010 10111111110 10111110111 11100101111 10100111110 11111111111 01111100100 11011101111 11101101101 01111111111 11110111010 11011111110 10101110101 01101110111 11010101011 11001011010 10111010110 11111010101 10101010010 11101100111 110101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1110
- Average number of words per stanza: 217
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, in, me are repeated.
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