Analysis of Arthur Mcewen
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Posterity with all its eyes
Will come and view him where he lies.
Then, turning from the scene away
With a concerted shrug, will say:
'H'm, Scarabaeus Sisyphus
What interest has that to us?
We can't admire at all, at all,
A tumble-bug without its ball.'
And then a sage will rise and say:
'Good friends, you err-turn back, I pray:
This freak that you unwisely shun
Is bug and ball rolled into one.'
| Scheme | AABBACDDBBEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01001111 11011111 11010101 10010111 1111 1101111 11011111 01010111 01011101 11111111 11110101 11011011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 395 |
| Words | 78 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 303 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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