This is an analysis of Sires And Sons by Ambrose Bierce.
Wild wanton Luxury lays waste the land
With difficulty tilled by Thrift's hard hand!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaabbccdd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101001101 01000101111 1101100101 0101110101 0110101101 11010101101 1111000101 1111011101 1011000101 1101000101 01001000111 0101010001 1101000101 1011110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
at
Anaphora
and
