This is an analysis of The Scurril Press by Ambrose Bierce.
OM JONESMITH _(loquitur)_: I've slept right through
The night-a rather clever thing to do.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggddggaahc hi XffjXkkiiaaXXiijjXfjiaallii ai aiieejjgg kk XggddeebbmmmeeffiikkggmmXffjjee
- Stanza lengths: 22,2,27,2,9,2,31,
- Metre: 11001001111 0101010101 1101011101 1101010101 0101110101 0101010111 1101010101 1010010101 1100110101 0100110101 0111010101 11010011101 1100011101 1111000101 0101110111 1011110101 010111001 010111001 1101010101 1101001101 10101110101 0101 110101 0001010111 10001000101 1001110010 1101011101 0110010101 1111011101 0111111101 1101010111 0101010111 0100010101 1111010111 0101110101 1101010111 110111111111 11111101101 0101010101 0111010101 0101110111 110011101010 011010111 11001111111 101110101 11001001101 1101010111 1101110101 1111011111 1101011001 0011110001 1100110111 011110 100111 1101110111 1101110101 10111101001 1101110111 1101010111 0101010101 1101010111 0101010100 11001011101 1101001101 10 1011110101 0101010101 0001010101 1001000101 1101000101 01001010101 1001010111 0101110101 1101110001 1101001101 0101010001 1101010101 1111000101 1001011011 1100010101 1101110101 01001010001 0101010101 1111000101 0111010101 01110000111 1101010101 0111010101 01001010011 0101110001 1011110101 0101011101 1101000101 0111011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 94
Repeated words/phrases
to, what, you, and, of
Anaphora
is, a, the
