This is an analysis of A False Prophecy by Ambrose Bierce.

Dom Pedro, Emperor of far Brazil
(Whence coffee comes and the three-cornered nut),…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbacc dedeedbb
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 1101000101 1101101101 111110001 1100010011 1100110101 0101011111 0111000101 1001010111 1111010111 1101111101 1111110111 0101001101 1111000101 0101010111 1011010101 1111010011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Anaphora

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