This is an analysis of The Flame by Ezra Pound.
‘Tis not a game that plays at mates and mating,
Provençe knew;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBCBXXcBdcefg hbaCcifccehX ijg jXeXXbifcjXdffh
- Stanza lengths: 13,12,3,15,
- Metre: 11011111110 101 11010101110 101 11110111010 1101010111 11110111110 101 1101010110 11110101110 11010010111 1001010011 1111110101 1111100101 1101110111 11011111110 11010101110 11111111000 0111011111 10010010011 111101101010 11110101010 1111011111 10010101010 1001010100 10010001111 1010110100 1111111101 1101010101 11110001001 11110011111 0111111100 1111011111 1111111101 1101111111 11111101010 1111111111 01111101110 0111111100 01111100110 11011110000 1111011111 1111010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
we, of, and, thou, my
Anaphora
'tis, if
