One Of The Unfair Sex
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
She stood at the ticket-seller's
Serenely removing her glove,
While hundreds of strugglers and yellers,
And some that were good at a shove,
Were clustered behind her like bats in
a cave and unwilling to speak their love.
At night she still stood at that window
Endeavoring her money to reach;
The crowds right and left, how they sinned-O,
How dreadfully sinned in their speech!
Ten miles either way they extended
their lines, the historians teach.
She stands there to-day-legislation
Has failed to remove her. The trains
No longer pull up at that station;
And over the ghastly remains
Of the army that waited and died of
old age fall the snows and the rains.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABABXB CDCDXD EFEFBF |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 649 |
Words | 117 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
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