This is an analysis of A Social Call by Ambrose Bierce.
Well, well, old Father Christmas, is it you,
With your thick neck and thin pretense of virtue?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaabb cdXdbb XeXecc fgfghh iXiiee ejejbb
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 1111010001 01111101010 11000111011 11111100011 1110110011 1101010111 1101111111 00110110111 1011110011 11010101011 1100010101 1101010101 1111010101 110011111010 01010001001 11011101010 1101001101 0101110011 0111110011 01110011110 1011000110 11010101010 1111010101 1001011101 1001011101 01011111000 0100111101 01001011010 1111010111 11010001110 1111010111 11110011110 1111010101 01110101010 0111011101 0111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
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