Analysis of Arboriculture
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
You may say they won't grow, and say they'll decay-
Say it again till you're sick of the say,
Get up on your ear, blow your blaring bazoo
And hire a hall to proclaim it; and you
May stand on a stump with a lifted hand
As a pine may stand or a redwood stand,
And stick to your story and cheek it through.
But I point with pride to the far divide
Where the Snake from its groves is seen to glide
To Mariposa's arboreal suit,
And the shaggy shoulders of Shasta Butte,
And the feathered firs of Siskiyou;
And I swear as I sit on my marvelous hair
I roll my marvelous eyes and swear,
And sneer, and ask where would your forests be
To-day if it hadn't been for me!
Then I rise tip-toe, with a brow of brass,
Like a bully boy with an eye of glass;
I look at my gum sprouts, red and blue,
And I say it loud and I say it low:
'They know their man and you bet they'll grow!'
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Metre | 11111101101 1101111101 1111111101 01001101101 1110110101 101111011 0111100111 1111110101 1011111111 1101001 0010101101 0010111 011111111001 111100101 0101111101 111110111 1111110111 1010111111 111111101 0111101111 111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 852 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 656 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 179 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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