This is an analysis of An Actor by Ambrose Bierce.
Some one ('tis hardly new) has oddly said
The color of a trumpet's blare is red;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeaaffbbbbaXgg
- Stanza lengths: 22,
- Metre: 1111011101 0100010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101110101 0101010101 1101010111 0101000101 1101010001 1001000101 1101000101 1100010101 0101010101 1101010001 11011110001 1110110111 0100010001 01010101001 1111011101 11011101100 1101010101 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
her, and, his
Anaphora
the, and
