This is an analysis of A Long-Felt Want by Ambrose Bierce.

Dimly apparent, through the gloom
Of Market-street's opaque simoom,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,
  • Metre: 10010101 01010110 01010101 01000101 01110101 110111010
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 6

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