This is an analysis of Contentment by Ambrose Bierce.
Sleep fell upon my senses and I dreamed
Long years had circled since my life had fled.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaabb XcdccdXX XXeXXeaa fgfggfaa
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1101110111 1011011111 0111001111 0111110001 1111111101 1000010101 10001111010 10010011110 1001010110 1101010011 0111010101 1111110111 1100110001 1011010101 011111010010 010101111000 1111010111 1111001111 0101010101 01010101001 1101010111 0101011101 11010011110 10000100010 1110100101 0101110001 1111010001 1001110101 1101000101 1101110101 11110001010 111101101010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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Epiphora
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