This is an analysis of To A Professional Eulogist by Ambrose Bierce.
Newman, in you two parasites combine:
As tapeworm and as graveworm too you shine.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaeeffaagghheeiibbjjaaee
- Stanza lengths: 32,
- Metre: 1001110110 110011100111 1101000111 0101001111 111000111 0101000101 1101000111 11011101011 1111110011 1001010011 1101011111 10100111011 1111011101 1111111101 1001110001 11001101101 1001110101 11100100011 11010100101 110011011101 1111010111 1111010101 1101000111 1010001101 1111010101 0101000111 1111110001 0111010111 1101011111 1101111101 1101110101 0101010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
you, of, your
Anaphora
as