This is an analysis of Haec Fabula Docet by Ambrose Bierce.

A rat who'd gorged a box of bane
And suffered an internal pain,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddeebbXX
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 011100101 11010101 100101010 0100001010 11110101 01010111 111110001 01110111 10010101 01010101 11110101 11010101 01000101 01010101 010001110 0101100010
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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