This is an analysis of For Tat by Ambrose Bierce.
O, heavenly powers! will wonders never cease?
Hair upon dogs and feathers upon geese!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXbbccddee
- Stanza lengths: 12,
- Metre: 110010010101 1011110011 01010101010 01010101110 0111000101 0101010101 0101000101 0101010001 1101110001 0111110111 0111110111 1101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 12
Anaphora
the, a
