Analysis of A Bequest To Music
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
'Let music flourish!' So he said and died.
Hark! ere he's gone the minstrelsy begins:
The symphonies ascend, a swelling tide,
Melodious thunders fill the welkin wide
The grand old lawyers, chinning on their chins!
| Scheme | ABAAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | "The Road Not Taken" stanza |
| Metre | 1101011101 11110101 0100010101 0100101011 011101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 217 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 24, 2023
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