This is an analysis of The Division Superintendent by Ambrose Bierce.
Baffled he stands upon the track
The automatic switches clack.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee bb ff aX
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Metre: 10110101 01010101 100110101 01010101 01010101 11011101 11010101 11000111 01011101 01011101 11000101 01110001 11010101 10010001 01010111 11010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
his
Anaphora
the
