This is an analysis of L'Audace by Ambrose Bierce.
Daughter of God! Audacity divine
Of clowns the terror and of brains the sign…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeeddddffXX
- Stanza lengths: 19,
- Metre: 1001010001 0101010101 11010000101 1101000101 1101000101 0101000101 1101000111 1101011101 0111110111 1100110101 11010100101 01010111001 1111011011 0101010101 1101010111 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 19
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