This is an analysis of L'Audace by Ambrose Bierce.

Daughter of God! Audacity divine
Of clowns the terror and of brains the sign…

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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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