This is an analysis of George A. Knight by Ambrose Bierce.
Attorney Knight, it happens so sometimes
That lawyers, justifying cut-throats' crimes…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXccddbbeeffbb gghhiijjXXbb cceekkkk bbeebbccggll
- Stanza lengths: 16,12,8,12,
- Metre: 0101010101 1101010111 1101000111 0111010100 1101000101 1100011101 0111101001 1101110001 0111010011 0111011101 0101011101 1111010111 1001000101 010101011 010100111 111001101 0101010101 0111110101 1101010101 1011010111 0101011101 1101010101 1111110001 1111110001 1101110111 1101101101 1011110111 0111000101 1101010111 0101010011 11010011101 10101010101 1101000111 1111011101 1111110101 0101010101 1011110111 11111001001 1011011001 0111010101 1101110011 1101111101 1011010101 1101011001 1111110101 1101010101 1111010101 1111000101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
so, and, thy
