This is an analysis of France by Ambrose Bierce.
Unhappy State! with horrors still to strive:
Thy Hugo dead, thy Boulanger alive;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddddeeff
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 0101010101 1101110001 0111011111 1111010111 11010010001 1101010101 1101010001 1101010101 0101010101 0101001001 11010100101 0101110011 1101111101 0101001101 0101010011 1011010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
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