This is an analysis of As By Fire by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Sometimes I feel so passionate a yearning
For spiritual perfection here below,…
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