This is an analysis of Emancipation by Ambrose Bierce.
Behold! the days of miracle at last
Return-if ever they were truly past:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccccaaddXX bbeeffXa bbffXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 6,10,8,8,
- Metre: 0101010011 0101010101 0101000101 0111001101 1111010101 1011001101 01001010111 0101110101 1101001101 1001010001 1111010101 0101110101 11010100101 0111011101 1101010001 0101010101 1001010111 0101000101 01000101001 0101010101 0101010101 1111010111 1010010101 1111110101 1001010101 0101110101 1111011101 010011101 1011010101 1101010101 11010101000 11010101000
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
with, his, as, '
Anaphora
the