This is an analysis of the poem A Flame Is In My Blood that begins with:
A flame is in my blood
burning dry life, to the bone....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cded Xece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010011 1011001 111101 11101 00111 100101 0111 101001 10101 10001 0110101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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