This is an analysis of 'Black Bart, Po8' by Ambrose Bierce.
Welcome, good friend; as you have served your term,
And found the joy of crime to be a fiction,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX bcbX aXae fbfb XgXg cdcd cXce hihiXbcbc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1001111111 11010100010 1111101111 11010100010 1111011111 11010111010 1101011101 01110101110 10010100110 11110101110 11011101010 11010111010 1100010111 10110101010 0111010111 11011110010 1111011101 11010110010 1101111101 11100010010 111100101010 10111111010 1111110001 11100101010 1101010011 11010101010 01101110001 11111111010 1111010111 01011111100 01010100111 10010111110 1111010101 11001111010 1101110001 11110100110 1101110101 11111101010 1101111101 11010011110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
to, and, you
Anaphora
i, and
