This is an analysis of As By Fire by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Sometimes I feel so passionate a yearning
For spiritual perfection here below,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a b a b c d c d X e X e f g f g h i h i i e i e f f fXf
  • Stanza lengths: 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
  • Metre: 01111100010 11000010101 010010101010 110101 11000101010 110010101 010101000010 111101 01011101100 1101001001 00110100010 111001 00101101010 0111000101 110100111010 110101 11110101011 11111010101 01010101111 011111 010101101110 0011111111 01011010010 010111 11000101010 1011001111 11111111010 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 28
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

for, and

Anaphora

so, one, the