This is an analysis of By A Defeated Litigant by Ambrose Bierce.
Liars for witnesses; for lawyers brutes
Who lose their tempers to retrieve their suits;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbcc
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 10110011010 1111000111 1011011101 1111011101 1001010001 1011010001 1111011100 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
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