This is an analysis of An Alibi by Ambrose Bierce.
A famous journalist, who long
Had told the great unheaded throng…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbcc ddddeeffgghheeddiijjkkllmmffllddddbbhh ddeeXfbbbbXXddddfX nnffbXccddeecc bbXXhhbXmmXdffbbhhddcXmm hhff bbiibbnnbbooeeddccaa mmffffoobbppnXddf bbbbbbllbbbbmmbbooddnn eeddbbbbbbnXbbddnnddiXddd
- Stanza lengths: 8,38,18,14,24,4,20,17,22,25,
- Metre: 01010011 11011001 100111111 11110111 11011101 00011111 11010101 01000101 1100111 01010101 01011100 01111111 01010101 11000101 11110101 11110001 11011101 01110101 11001101 11010101 11010101 01010111 01000101 010010101 01010101 01010101 11010100 11110000 11110001 01010101 11011111 01010101 01010001 110100100 01010001 11110101 11110001 11011101 11010101 11111111 11111011 11110111 01010101 11010111 11011101 10000101 01001101 11111101 00010111 11110101 01110101 11010101 11111101 11110101 01010001 11010101 01010101 01001110 10010101 10110001 11001101 11110001 00110101 01010101 01010111 01100101 11110111 11011111 01000101 01010011 11010111 01110111 01010101 11010101 01000111 01111101 100110101 10010001 01010001 01110101 11010101 11010001 0111101 01010101 11110001 01011010 11010101 01000101 101001100 11011101 11010010 11000101 11111101 01010001 11010101 11011111 110101011 11010001 11110001 11011000 01000101 01010101 01010101 01010101 11010101 11110101 01010101 11010111 11110001 11000101 01010101 11010101 11010011 01010101 110110011 01010101 11010011 11010101 01011110 11010101 11000111 01110001 11011101 110100101 01010101 001010101 11111111 11110111 010110001 10000001 01010101 11000111 01110101 01110101 11010101 01110111 01011111 11010101 11010101 11010100 110011101 110110101 111 10101 01110111 11011101 00011101 01010111 010101011 11010101 01001101 10010011 11010101 01000101 01000100 01110101 11000101 11110101 11010111 01011101 01110001 01011101 11111111 01110111 10111011 111100101 11110101 11001001 0111111 10010001 01011101 11010101 11010100 11010111 11000110 11010101 11110011 100011111 01110111 01011101 11010101 11011101 110101011 11011111 11000101 01011101 110110010 010110001 10001001 11010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 190
Repeated words/phrases
to, and, he, i
Anaphora
was, the, he
