Analysis of The Boss's Choice
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Listen to his wild romances:
He advances foolish fancies,
Each expounded as his 'view'
Gu.
In his brain's opacous clot, ah
He has got a maggot! What a
Man with 'views' to overwhelm us!
Gulielmus.
Hear his demagogic clamor
Hear him stammer in his grammar!
Teaching, he will learn to spell
Gulielmus L.
Slave who paid the price demanded
With two-handed iron branded
By the boss-pray cease to dose us,
Gulielmus L. Jocosus.
| Scheme | AXBB XXCA DDEE XXCA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
| Metre | 10111010 10101010 1010111 1 011111 11101010 1111011 1 1101010 11100110 1011111 11 11101010 11101010 10111111 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 413 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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