This is an analysis of The Birth Of Virtue by Ambrose Bierce.

When, long ago, the young world circling flew
Through wider reaches of a richer blue,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbb
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 11010111001 1101000101 1101111101 0101010101 11011100101 0101010101 11010110011 01011010111 0101010001 1101010001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 10