This is an analysis of Is Love A Fire? by Sibylla Schwarz.

Is love a fire? Can love melt iron?
Am I like fire and full of the pain of love?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xabb Xccd Xad eXe
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,3,3,
  • Metre: 0101011110 111101100101 1010010110 0001010111100110 0001011110 01110101 1110001101 1100110011111 1001011111111 111111101 110101101 1111110101 11011101110 100101101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

of, fire, love, it, made

Anaphora

if, she

Epiphora

flesh