Analysis of Stephen Dorsey
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Fly, heedless stranger, from this spot accurst,
Where rests in Satan an offender first
In point of greatness, as in point of time,
Of new-school rascals who proclaim their crime.
Skilled with a frank loquacity to blab
The dark arcana of each mighty grab,
And famed for lying from his early youth,
He sinned secure behind a veil of truth.
Some lock their lips upon their deeds; some write
A damning record and conceal from sight;
Some, with a lust of speaking, die to quell it.
His way to keep a secret was to tell it.
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Metre | 11101111 1101010101 0111010111 1111010111 1101111 0101011101 0111011101 1101010111 1111011111 0100100111 11011101111 11110101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 514 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 406 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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