This is an analysis of Dies Irae by Ambrose Bierce.
Dies irae! dies ilia!
Solvet saeclum in favilla…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX aXa XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,
- Metre: 11110 10100100 1101100 101001100 101001100 1011000 10101010 1100100 10101010 11001100 1100100 10001000 10101000 01101000 1101000 10101100 10101000 11001000 11101100 11001000 11101100 1101000 11001010 1011100 100101 111011 11110101 10110010 10001010 10101110 110100 1011000 101100 1000101 1010101 100011 11001000 11001000 1011100 101111 1110110 11100101 01101010 11101100 100110 10001000 10100100 10111000 10101100 11001010 110110 1000110 10101100 1000101 11011
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 18
- Lines: 55
