Analysis of Weather
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see,
And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as any one can be--
Dead and damned and shut in Hades as a liar from his birth,
With a record of unreason seldome paralleled on earth.
While I looked he reared him solemnly, that incandescent youth,
From the coals that he'd preferred to the advantages of truth.
He cast his eyes about him and above him; then he wrote
On a slab of thin asbestos what I venture here to quote--
For I read it in the rose-light of the everlasting glow:
'Cloudy; variable winds, with local showers; cooler; snow.'
Scheme | AABBCCDDEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010101110111 01101101110111 101010101010111 10011111011 11111110010101 101110110010011 11110110011111 101110101110111 11110011100101 101000111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 454 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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