Analysis of By A Defeated Litigant
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
Liars for witnesses; for lawyers brutes
Who lose their tempers to retrieve their suits;
Cowards for jurors; and for judge a clown
Who ne'er took up the law, yet lays it down;
Justice denied, authority abused,
And the one honest person the accused
Thy courts, my country, all these awful years,
Move fools to laughter and the wise to tears.
| Scheme | AABBCCAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011001101 1111010111 1011001101 1111011111 1001010001 0011010001 1111011101 1111000111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 340 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 268 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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