This is an analysis of The Opposing Sex by Ambrose Bierce.
The Widows of Ashur
Are loud in their wailing:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ABXXabAB XXcXcXXXXbAbbbabA
- Stanza lengths: 8,17,
- Metre: 010010 110110 110010 110010 110010 011010 010010 110110 010100 110100 110110 010100 110110 011100 010100 110100 111110 010010 011110 011110 011010 010010 111110 010010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
of
Anaphora
the
