This is an analysis of To My Liars by Ambrose Bierce.
Attend, mine enemies of all degrees,
From sandlot orators and sandlot fleas…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbccddeeff gghhiijjcckkeeXkdd lllleebbkkllhhkkgg mmlleehhkkkkccgXhhkk
- Stanza lengths: 16,18,18,20,
- Metre: 0111000101 0101001101 0101001101 1101011101 1101010101 1111010101 1101110001 1111100111 0101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1001110001 0100010111 0101010001 1111111101 1101101111 0101010101 1101010111 1111000101 1001110101 0101011111 1101101101 1001010101 01010100101 1111100001 1101011101 1101011101 0100110111 0111010011 1111110111 1101100110 1101101101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101 0101000001 11010101010 11111101010 1101011101 0101000101 1101010101 11001010001 1001010111 1001011101 0100010101 1001011001 1101110101 1001111101 1111110001 0111111111 0101011101 1101111101 1101110111 0001100111 1101011101 1111011001 1111011101 1101010011 1111111101 1110010101 1111010001 1111000101 1101100111 0111010101 0110111101 0101001101 1101110001 01110011010 0011010111 0101111101 1111010001 0101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
to, by, his, you, that
