"Fire and Ice" shows a form of meter that gives a meaning to when pausing in its measures. The poem is irregular, but maintains an iambic foot throughout the poem. The first line is tetrameter (a verse of four measures), followed by dimeter (a metrical line of verse with two feet), which is then followed by five lines of tetrameter and ending with two lines of dimeter. This was recently compared to “Dante’s Inferno”, showing that the pause of these lines reflected a similar meaning towards each other. The purpose of the divergence in line length is to provide natural intrusions in the poem, causing the reader to pause and understand the prior lines in order to gain the meaning of the lines that use dimeter. For example, when Frost argues “Some