Analysis of My Monument
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
It is pleasant to think, as I'm watching my ink
A-drying along my paper,
That a monument fine will surely be mine
When death has extinguished my taper.
From each rhyming scribe of the journalist tribe
Purged clean of all sentiments narrow,
A pebble will mark his respect for the stark
Stiff body that's under the barrow.
By fellow-bards thrown, thus stone upon stone
Will make my celebrity deathless.
O, I wish I could think, as I gaze at my ink,
They'd wait till my carcass is breathless.
| Scheme | ABXB XCXC XDAD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111011111011 01001110 10100111011 111010110 11101101001 111110010 01011101101 110110010 1101111011 11101001 111111111111 111110110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 486 |
| Words | 90 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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