This is an analysis of Need by Babette Deutsch.
What do we need for love—a midnight fire
Flinging itself by fistfuls up the chimney…
Browse poems by Babette Deutsch
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbXXcabXcbX
- Stanza lengths: 12,
- Metre: 11111101110 10011101010 0111011101 1011010001 01010001010 101100100101 01010100010 1101010101 0110111111 1001010111 110101011 1011110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 12
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