Analysis of Stephen J. Field
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Here sleeps one of the greatest students
Of jurisprudence.
Nature endowed him with the gift
Of the juristhrift.
All points of law alike he threw
The dice to settle.
Those honest cubes were loaded true
With railway metal.
| Scheme | ABCCDEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101010 1010 10011101 101 11110111 01110 11010101 1110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 221 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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