This is an analysis of To Maude by Ambrose Bierce.

Not as two errant spheres together grind
With monstrous ruin in the vast of space,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaccXccX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111010101 0101000101 0101010101 1101010101 11110100101 10111100101 0101000111 110101111 101100111 1100010101 0100100111 1111110001 1111110001 1101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

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