This is an analysis of Uncoloneled by Ambrose Bierce.
Though war-signs fail in time of peace, they say,
Two awful portents gloom the public mind:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXbcbcbX
- Stanza lengths: 11,
- Metre: 1111010111 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 11111101100 0101010101 0111110101 10000111111 01100001 1101010101 01000100010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 11
Repeated words/phrases
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