This is an analysis of Convalescent by Ambrose Bierce.
What! 'Out of danger?' Can the slighted Dame
Or canting Pharisee no more defame?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcCcccCdd eeffddXeccXXggcc ddccbXhheeee
- Stanza lengths: 12,16,12,
- Metre: 1101010101 110101101 0100011111 1101100111 1000010001 1101011101 0101110101 1100010101 0100110101 1101011101 1100011111 1101010101 1101010001 1001010001 0101010101 1101000101 0100010111 11100110111 01010001010 0110010101 1111010001 1100010111 0101010101 1100010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010001 0100010011 1101010101 1101000101 0100000101 1100010101 10110011110 10110101110 0101010101 0101100101 10110100101 1101011101 0101100101 11010111001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
to, and, their
Anaphora
who, the