“Fire and Ice” is yet another timeless poem by the great poet Robert Frost. Written in the 1920’s, some believe that the poem parallels “once by the pacific” also written by frost. But many others believe that the poem was inspired by Dante’s Inferno.
First off, “Fire and Ice” is not the most musical poem frost has ever written. It is a fairly simple nine line poem with a fairly simply rhyme scheme, ABA, ABC, BCB. The odd thing about this scheme is that frost used a variation on the rhyme scheme Dante invented for his Divine Comedy. All lines of the poem can be read as iambic, but not necessary for effect. The one thing that is absolutely necessary for effect in “Fire and Ice” is the enjambment in line seven. This one line adds great effe
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