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…
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