Analysis of A Wet Season
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
The rain is fierce, it flogs the earth,
And man's in danger.
O that my mother at my birth
Had borne a stranger!
The flooded ground is all around.
The depth uncommon.
How blest I'd be if only she
Had borne a salmon.
If still denied the solar glow
'T were bliss ecstatic
To be amphibious-but O,
To be aquatic!
We're worms, men say, o' the dust, and they
That faith are firm of.
O, then, be just: show me some dust
To be a worm of.
The pines are chanting overhead
A psalm uncheering.
It's O, to have been for ages dead
And hard of hearing!
Restore, ye Pow'rs, the last bright hours
The dial reckoned;
'Twas in the time of Egypt's prime
Rameses II.
Scheme | ABABXCXC DEDEXFXF GEGXXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111101 01010 11110111 11010 01011101 01010 11111101 11010 11010101 101010 11010011 11010 111110101 11111 11111111 11011 01110101 011 111111101 01110 011101110 01010 10011101 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 629 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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