This is an analysis of A Critic by Ambrose Bierce.

That from _you_, neighbor! to whose vacant lot
Each rhyming literary knacker scourges…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb adad cece dfdf
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1011001101 11010101010 0101010001 11011101010 0101010101 110101001110 0101010001 01110011110 1001010011 01100101010 1101010111 11011001010 00111000101 11010101010 0101010101 11011100010 10101100101 110100110010 1111010111 10110011010
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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