This is an analysis of A Nightmare by Ambrose Bierce.
I dreamed that I was dead. The years went by:
The world forgot that such a man as I…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaba Xcbc ddXd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 1111110011 0101110111 1101110101 0101001101 1011010110 01100110111 1101010101 1101110101 11100110011 1100110111 1001000101 11010101001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
i, my
