This is an analysis of Fire by Meena Kandasamy.

Black satanic fumes
shroud the blank blue skies…

Browse poems by Meena Kandasamy

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabcda eaXbeaXdX bXfcf Xcggggg Xa
  • Stanza lengths: 6,9,5,7,2,
  • Metre: 10101 10111 010111 11010001 100010 101110 11110 10010101 110010001 1011111 101010 101010010 1100110 1010101 101001 010001 11001010 001101 1010101 1001 11 01001111 111101011 1011011010 010010001001 1101 101 101110 010010
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 29

Repeated words/phrases

echo, and, as