This is an analysis of An Imposter by Ambrose Bierce.
Must you, Carnegie, evermore explain
Your worth, and all the reasons give again…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddbbeeccaa
- Stanza lengths: 18,
- Metre: 1110010101 1111010101 1111110001 1111100001 1111010101 0111010101 10010111010 10110111010 1101010111 1101011111 0111011101 1111001101 1101001101 1100010001 1101011101 1111111110 0101001101 0101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
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