Analysis of Corrected News
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
'T was a maiden lady (the newspapers say)
Pious and prim and a bit gone-gray.
She slept like an angel, holy and white,
Till ten o' the clock in the shank o' the night
(When men and other wild animals prey)
And then she cried in the viewless gloom:
'There's a man in the room, a man in the room!'
And this maiden lady (they make it appear)
Leapt out of the window, five fathom sheer!
Alas, that lying is such a sin
When newspaper men need bread and gin
And none can be had for less than a lie!
For the maiden lady a bit gone-gray
Saw the man in the room from across the way,
And leapt, not out of the window but in
_Ten_ fathom sheer, as I hope to die!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010100101 100100111 1111101001 11101001101 1101011001 01110011 10100101001 01101011101 1110101101 011101101 11011101 0111111101 1010100111 10100110101 0111101010 110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 644 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 7 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 245 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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