This is an analysis of The Following Pair by Ambrose Bierce.
O very remarkable mortal,
What food is engaging your jaws…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaX cbcX bXXX dXdX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 110010010 11001011 110010110 11011 111110110 01111001 111110110 11001 110010010 01011011 110110010 11011 110010010 01001001 111110010 11001
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
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