Analysis of An Enemy To Law And Order
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
A is defrauded of his land by B,
Who's driven from the premises by C.
D buys the place with coin of plundered E.
'That A's an Anarchist!' says F to G.
| Scheme | AAAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain Rubaiyat |
| Metre | 0101011111 1101010011 1101111101 1111001111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 155 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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