Analysis of Montague Leverson
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
As some enormous violet that towers
Colossal o'er the heads of lowlier flowers
Its giant petals royally displayed,
And casting half the landscape into shade;
Delivering its odors, like the blows
Of some strong slugger, at the public nose;
Pride of two Nations-for a single State
Would scarce suffice to sprout a plant so great;
So Leverson's humility, outgrown
The meaner virtues that he deigns to own,
To the high skies its great corolla rears,
O'ertopping all he has except his ears.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010100110 01010011110 1101010001 010101011 0100110101 1111010101 1111010101 1101110111 1101001 0101011111 1011110101 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 482 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 390 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 82 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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