Analysis of Vanished At Cock-Crow

Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)



'I've found the secret of your charm,' I said,
Expounding with complacency my guess.
Alas! the charm, even as I named it, fled,
For all its secret was unconsciousness.


Scheme ABAC
Poetic Form
Metre 1101011111 0101010011 01011011111 111101100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 172
Words 32
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 128
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. more…

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