This is an analysis of Dead Fires by Jessie Redmon Fauset.
If this is peace, this dead and leaden thing,
Then better far the hateful fret, the sting.…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,
- Metre: 0001011101 1101010101 1001010101 1011 0011010101 0111010111 1001010101 1101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
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