Analysis of A Demagogue
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Yawp, yawp, yawp!
Under the moon and sun.
It's aye the rabble,
And I to gabble,
And hey! for the tale that is never done.
'Chant, chant, chant!
To woo the reluctant vote.
I would I were dead
And my say were said
And my song were sung to its ultimate note.
'Stab, stab, stab!
Ah! the weapon between my teeth
I'm sick of the flash of it;
See how the slash of it
Misses the foeman to mangle the sheath!
'Boom, boom, boom!
I'm beating the mammoth drum.
My nethermost tripes
I blow into the pipes
It's oh! for the honors that never come!'
'Twas the dolorous blab
Of a tramping 'scab'
'Twas the eloquent Swift
Of the marvelous gift
The wild, weird, wonderful gift of gab!
Scheme | XABBA XCDDC EFGGF XHIIH EEJJE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
Metre | 111 100101 11010 0111 0110111101 111 1100101 11101 01101 01101111001 111 10100111 1110111 110111 100111001 111 1100101 111 110101 1110101101 1011 10101 101001 101001 011100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 649 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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