Analysis of Metempsychosis [Once with Christ he entered Salem]
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Once with Christ he entered Salem,
Once in Moab bullied Balaam,
Once by Apuleius staged
He the pious much enraged.
And, again, his head, as beaver,
Topped the neck of Nick the Weaver.
Omar saw him (minus tether
Free and wanton as the weather:
Knowing naught of bit or spur)
Stamping over Bahram-Gur.
Now, as Altgeld, see him joy
As Governor of Illinois!
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111010 1010101 1111 1010101 00111110 10111010 10111010 10101010 1011111 101011 111111 1100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 350 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 275 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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