This is an analysis of If You Are Fire by Isaac Rosenberg.

If you are fire and I am fire,
Who blows the flame apart…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 0111011110 110101 1101001010 011101 010111011 111101 111101001 100110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8