Analysis of Nimrod
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
There were brave men, some one has truly said,
Before Atrides (those were mostly dead
Behind him) and ere you could e'er occur
Actaeon lived, Nimrod and Bahram-Gur.
In strength and speed and daring they excelled:
The stag they overtook, the lion felled.
Ah, yes, great hunters flourished before you,
And-for Munchausen lived-great talkers too.
There'll be no more; there's much to kill, but-well,
_You_ have left nothing in the world to tell!
Scheme | AABBCCDDEE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1011111101 01110101 01101111001 1110011 0101010101 011010101 1111010011 011011101 10111111111 1111000111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 441 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 346 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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