This is an analysis of Armand Barbes by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Fire out of heaven, a flower of perfect fire,
That where the roots of life are had its root…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbaccdXdd effeeffeXdXXdd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,14,
  • Metre: 10101001000110 1101011101 1101011111 01110100010 1101100010 11110100111 0111011001 110100111110 01110100111 0110001111 01010011101 01001011111 10001011001 1111011011 1101110111 1111010111 0111111111 10110100101 0111000111 1111111111 1101110101 1111111101 101110100111 1101011101 11111111010 11111111110 1101111101 1110010001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 29

Repeated words/phrases

of, that, love, and, thy, all, o

Anaphora

a, all