This is an analysis of Forest Fire by Kamala Das.

Of late I have begun to feel a hunger
To take in with greed, like a forest fire that…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abacXdcXebXcXfdbfedcXcX
  • Stanza lengths: 23,
  • Metre: 01111001010 010011010101 01101101010 10111111110 10111110111 11100101111 10100111110 11111111111 01111100100 11011101111 11101101101 01111111111 11110111010 11011111110 10101110101 01101110111 11010101011 11001011010 10111010110 11111010101 10101010010 11101100111 110101011010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 23

Repeated words/phrases

you, and, in, me