Analysis of A Bulletin
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
'Lothario is very low,'
So all the doctors tell.
Nay, nay, not _so_-he will be, though,
If ever he get well.
Scheme | ABAB |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11101 110101 11111111 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 113 |
Words | 24 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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