Analysis of Rebuke
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
When Admonition's hand essays
Our greed to curse,
Its lifted finger oft displays
Our missing purse.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11101 10111 11010101 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 104 |
| Words | 18 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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