This is an analysis of Opal by Amy Lowell.

You are ice and fire,
The touch of you burns my hands like snow.…

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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