This is an analysis of Constancy by Ambrose Bierce.

Dull were the days and sober,
The mountains were brown and bare,…

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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

if