Analysis of An Interpretation
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Now Lonergan appears upon the boards,
And Truth and Error sheathe their lingual swords.
No more in wordy warfare to engage,
The commentators bow before the stage,
And bookworms, militant for ages past,
Confess their equal foolishness at last,
Reread their Shakspeare in the newer light
And swear the meaning's obvious to sight.
For centuries the question has been hot:
Was Hamlet crazy, or was Hamlet not?
Now, Lonergan's illuminating art
Reveals the truth of the disputed 'part,'
And shows to all the critics of the earth
That Hamlet was an idiot from birth!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100010101 010101111 110101101 010010101 011001101 0111010011 111100101 010110011 1100010111 1101011101 1101001 0101100101 0111010101 1101110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 554 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 448 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 94 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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