Analysis of To A Bully
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
You, blatant coward that you are,
Upon the helpless vent your spite.
Suppose you ply your trade on me;
Come, monkey with this bard, and see
How I'll repay your bark with bite!
Ay, snarl just once at me, you brute!
And I shall hound you far and wide,
As fiercely as through drifted snow
The shepherd dog pursues what foe
Skulks on the Spartan mountain-side.
The chip is on my shoulder--see?
But touch it and I'll raise your fur;
I'm full of business, so beware!
For, though I'm loaded up for bear,
I'm quite as like to kill a cur!
| Scheme | XABBA XCDDC BEFFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 11010111 01010111 01111111 11011101 11011111 11111111 01111101 11011101 01010111 11010101 01111101 11101111 11110101 11110111 11111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 523 |
| Words | 103 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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