This is an analysis of Opal by Amy Lowell.
You are ice and fire,
The touch of you burns my hands like snow.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcaXc Xb
- Stanza lengths: 8,2,
- Metre: 111110 010111111 11111 1101001010 010011010 11101 1100101 100101010 010110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 10
Repeated words/phrases
you
Anaphora
you