This is an analysis of the poem Is Love A Fire? that begins with:
Is love a fire? Can love melt iron?
Am I like fire and full of the pain of love? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabb Xccd Xad eXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101011110 111101100101 1010010110 0001010111100110 0001011110 01110101 1110001101 1100110011111 1001011111111 111111101 110101101 1111110101 11011101110 100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, fire, love, it, made are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, she are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines flesh is repeated).
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