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Help me analysis this poetry:

''Some say the world will end in fire,some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice.
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i'll bullet point answers and try give sentence starters, but it won't be perfect:

- "Fire and ice" suggests a rivalry or hatred, the poet uses it to symbolise the clashing ideas or desires of people and how that creates conflict and will drive us to destruction
- Assonance; repetition of a vowel for example 'O'
- Alliteration; the repetition of the same letter at the beginning of multiple words 'favour fire'
- Sibilance; 'some say' creating the sound of fire and or ice
- Getting people to understand with familiar things 'fire' and 'ice'
- Anaphora; repetition of a word or phrase 'SOME SAY the world will end in Fire, SOME SAY ice.'
- Enjambment; a phrase or something that carries to another line or stanza (paragraph or verse) 'from what I've tastes desire
i hold with those who favour fire'
- The rhyme scheme is ABA ABC BCB
- Religious imagery; explaining the distaste of (religious) people towards the end of the world
- Both the fire and ice are destructive; relating again to the clashing and conflict of human ideologies

Sentence starters:
- The poet shows us..... by using..... this works because
- The poet uses.... to imply..... this makes us feel
- The poet presents the idea of.... by.... this encapsulates.....

Not perfect but i did it in 10 minutes so... not surprising, hope this helped tho.

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