This is an analysis of The New Enoch by Ambrose Bierce.
Enoch Arden was an able
Seaman; hear of his mishap…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dede dbdb fefe gaXa Xehe cici XeXe XeXX jhjh dhdhXjgjg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 10101110 1010011 10101010 111111101 11100010 1010011 10101010 1010101 10101010 1111101 10111010 1111101 11101010 1010101 10111011 1110101 10101110 1110111 10111010 1111101 10111010 1110101 101011100 11111001 10111110 00111001 111111110 1010111 11101110 1011111 11100110 0010001 11101010 1110111 10100100 1111101 10110110 1010111 111011110 1110101 10111011 1010101 00101011 1011001 110101010 1110111 110111010 1111001 11111011 1110111 10101011 1011111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
he, him
Anaphora
which
