Analysis of Fire
Leon Chames 1995 (Chicago)
I thought you’d walk through fire with me
Through all my flames, I thought you’d be
My water on my hottest days
But the thirst remained
And then I became the fire
’Til you quenched me out of your life
| Scheme | AABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111011 11111111 11011101 10101 01101010 11111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 201 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Written on October 01, 2021
Submitted on October 01, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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