This is an analysis of Stephen Dorsey by Ambrose Bierce.
Fly, heedless stranger, from this spot accurst,
Where rests in Satan an offender first…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabbXXccaaaa
- Stanza lengths: 12,
- Metre: 1101000110 1101010101 0101010101 0111010111 1001100001 0101001101 1111000101 1101010101 1111011111 0100110101 10010101010 01010101010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
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Epiphora
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