Analysis of Fire
Dorothea Mackeller 1885 (Point Piper, Sydney) – 1968 (Randwick)
This life that we call our own
Is neither strong nor free;
A flame in the wind of death,
It trembles ceaselessly.
And this all we can do
To use our little light
Before, in the piercing wind,
It flickers into night:
To yield the heat of the flame,
To grudge not, but to give
Whatever we have of strength,
That one more flame may live.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11111101 110111 0100111 11100 011111 1110101 0100101 110011 1101101 111111 101111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 332 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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