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,…
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
