Analysis of Love is The Fire
Thomas Bateson 1570 – 1630
Love is the fire that burns me,
The smokes are thoughts confused,
Which dim my soul, my soul,
And hath my sense abused.
Though fire to ashes turn me,
Yet doth the smoke more grieve me,
That dims my mind,
Whose light should still relieve me.
| Scheme | ABCBAADA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010111 011101 111111 011101 11011011 1101111 1111 1111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 241 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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