This is an analysis of Constancy by Ambrose Bierce.
Dull were the days and sober,
The mountains were brown and bare,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dXdX efef gfgf hihi jhjh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1001110 0100111 101011010 1011001 01010110 00100101 111010010 110111 10111110 0010111 10100010 0010111 01011010 0100101 1110011010 01011001 1110010 11001011 010111010 1110100 0010110011 01001000 1111010011 0101111 1011101110 01001011 1011011110 01001001
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, her, to
Anadiplosis
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