This is an analysis of Fire In The Heavens by Christopher John Brennan.

Fire in the heavens, and fire along the hills,
and fire made solid in the flinty stone,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab ccXc cXcX dd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,2,
  • Metre: 1000101100101 11011000101 11110101011 010101101001 0101010101 0111010101 01000010110 0101011101 0101010101 11100010100 01011000101 1101010101 11001010101 0010010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

fire, in