This is an analysis of the poem The Shape Of The Fire that begins with:
1
What’s this? A dish for fat lips. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abc dad efga bad fcX eXh X iijjddeej babiXkXXabdlk hhXf adad dmdm njb X abXnXnni X ldddfk cdkXdhdh X jfXgXdhandahjhkkbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,4,3,3,3,1,9,13,4,4,4,3,1,8,1,6,8,1,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 0001111 1101010 0101101110111 10010010010 11111011 0111 1011011100101 00110110110001 11011110110 11111010101 11011000011111010 1011001001010 1111001001 0010010001010 011101001 10101011010 011110111111 010010111111 011011 1 1001 01001 0111 0101 111111 0101 111011 10100 0101 110110111011100 10010111011 10101010010 0101111111 111001111 1111001001 01011011011010 11100010001100101000 10 11001001100111001010 01101100101001 011001101 011 1011 111 10010 00101 1101 0101 01001 1111 1111 01101 11011 00101 111111101 10011110011 0101110 1 011 01101010 0110 011100010 1111001 01001010 0111 01001011 1 101101101 001100101110 1010101100110 1010110010010 1011110010011 110111001111100 111110101101 0101001101010 011101101010 1111100101 1111101010010 1100110111 0101101010010 111101 1 01011 01011 10110100 0101010 01110100 00101 10101001 1101001100 011001011001011 1110100111 01000101010110110 1011100101010 010011000101 11101011011110010 01111111001110 11011100100110 1110101111110 11011001000110
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 101
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of, s, and, fills are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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